RE: AMD vs Xeon 64 bit

The economic feedback loop that ensures quality in mass produced goods is the potential cost of the recall, which scales not merely with the number of a particular item the company sells, but with the sunk cost of the capital infrastructure's running value minus it's salvage value at the inevitable bankruptcy or buyout if quality of more than a very few mass marketed products is bad within a given operating window.

In other words, quality assurance for mass marketed products is like quality assurance at a nuclear power plant, while quality assurance at a specialized high tech small market is like quality assurance at a sugar bush. They don't make much maple sugar and it is expensive, but they can probably afford to replace yours if it tastes bad.

If they blow QA at a nuclear power plant the whole industry goes down for 30 years.

Regards,

mwf

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Anjo, but why if the hardware is special it breaks often, yes it needs special manufacturing skills/lines and that's why it's more reliable where in MASS produced hardware no one cares if the particular unit is working and especially for that its MASS produced and its cheap. <snip>

Regards.

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Tue Sep 05 2006 - 17:43:05 CDT