costs, support costs, regression testing, etc.) into another software market (say like some flavor of UNIX, or some OS that is single-sourced). That's not to say it can't be done, or that you can't write the drivers for yourself (of course, then you own all of those same costs). But just to be aware of what you're buying into. Many times, the cost for this choice isn't clear. The OS, device driver, or Field Service support comes from other groups in the company and the accounting folks can't/don't track it as part of the product cost (it is possible to bankrupt a product group this way without them every realizing where the problem is). Yet the choice was a product-level choice in a single product group, even though it has impacts throughout the company. On the other hand, if you pick an interconnect that's suited to your product space (based on performance, clients, option functionality, and most of a l l - software support) you could get access to a lot of I/O functionality that you don't have to create for yourself. And that option functionality doesn't have to carry the same cost as if you'd built it
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