I was somewhat cheered to see that Intel have made a mess of their development schedule and in theory at least will be unable to match AMD in performance for at least another four years.
While I do feel some sympathy for the people working on development at Intel in India, it's hard to feel bad for Intel as a whole when they have historically been so good at maintaining their leading position through aggressive business practice.
An increase in the opportunity for AMD to capitalize on their current performance lead can only lead to benefits for consumers. Intel are still getting away with charging more for less than their competitors, and I for one am not buying their product.
It will be interesting whether Dell remain comitted to their 'special relationship' with Intel, or whether they finally crack and begin supporting AMD. It will probably depend on whether they think they will lose sales. I expect that even as I write, Intel is furiously reassuring Dell that they will pull something out of the bag to fix their wrecked release schedule. Whether Intel will actually manage it is another matter.
If I was choosing server hardware, I'd probably pick Sun anyway - but I have nostalgia for Suns so... I'd choose Sun not just for the fantastic remote monitoring, but also for Solaris. Linux is fine, but Solaris does offer a little more, and you do get the whole package properly supported. On the other hand it's probably easier to find s/w that builds under Linux more reliably than under anything else, so I do qualify my choice with a probably.
posted by Peter Wake @ 5:36 pm
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