In the US I still often bump into people (including system adms) who will use nothing but Intel based CPUs. However, increasingly they seem to belong to a dying breed. (BTW & incidentally, most of them only buy Dell computers.)
Outside United States, the picture seems to brighten a lot (in AMD's favor). In China (including Taiwan), especially in & around campuses, I have noticed that the dominance of AMD cpus (especially the Semprons) has become "absolute". Intel's decision a few years ago to force AMD to design its own motherboards now really backfires. Intel could give away its Celerons (or even Pentiums--very unlikely) for free, and yet, no one would (indeed "could") use it b/c they are incompatible with AMD-based motherboards. If Sun's lawyers could finally do something positive (other than finding justifications for paying Kodak $100 M, brainlessly making the OpenSolaris trademark issue so difficult to follow, etc., etc.,) and induce AMD/ATI to develop (jointly with Sun or otherwise) drivers for Solaris, we may see a very high possibility of instantly adding a few millions of Solaris users (many of them will turn into Solaris developers as well as Sun's paying customers) every year. This is a very distinct possibility. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
