on 5-15-2008 5:13 PM Guy Boisvert spake the following:
That is one of the benefits of OEM integration. You can make it and sell it for less because the OEM picks up the cost of support. The equipment is made just "different" enough so there is no doubt it is an OEM product.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 likeTyan 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.
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