Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:19:56 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Stuart Krivis <ipswitch@apk.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: So what happens to FreeBSD now? Message-ID: <p05100352b760de43aaf1@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <2515701.993712862@[192.168.1.60]> References: <200106260901.AA23134284@stmail.pace.edu> <20010626084126W.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <p0510031eb75e868cb1bd@[194.78.241.123]> <2425994267.20010627160101@163.net> <p05100337b75fdc404cc5@[194.78.241.123]> <20010628103439.C9802@lpt.ens.fr> <2515701.993712862@[192.168.1.60]>
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At 7:21 AM -0400 6/28/01, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> I don't see this happening at all. Apple does need to quit pissing off
> Motorola, but I don't see that Apple has the expertise to design a CPU.
No, the issue is that Motorola is seriously hurting right now
(because of market turndown in a lot of their other segments), and
they're simply not focused on the desktop computer market, so they're
not delivering to Apple the kinds of chips Apple needs at the speeds
Apple needs, or in the timeframe Apple needs. IBM is doing a better
job of this, but they are still primarily focused on the server
market.
I believe that Apple could buy their way into the chip design
business, by giving a lot of money to Motorola and effectively making
them a junior partner in the PowerPC consortium.
Motorola could continue to do whatever they want in the embedded
market, but Apple would no longer have their destiny controlled by a
company that is suffering from a serious loss of business focus, is
having lots of management difficulties, and is rather disinterested
in whatever happens to Apple.
IMO, Apple really has no choice. They have to be able to take
their destiny into their own hands.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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