Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Guy Boisvert <boisvert.guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The only downside is that sometimes, it takes time to get them. It's like
Tyan has problem producing enough for market demand.
Actually from my understanding its sort of the 'opposite'. Market
demand for white-box motherboards has gotten less over time as the
'cost' of selling them has gone up versus buying a finished built
system from a VAR. So companies like Tyan etc make more money making
the boards indirectly for VARs than they do from selling their own
boards.
Its sort of like the car engine companies of the 1900's. As time went
on they made smaller and smaller batches of specialized engines
because the companies they had sold them to either bought them up or
just had them make large batches of Ford/GM/etc engines exclusively.
Yeah, that's possible. They could have big contracts with VARs.
I saw some Dell workstations with special models of Asus mainboards,
which are not supported by Asus! You have to rely on the VARs for support.
Guy Boisvert, ing.
IngTegration inc.
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