[SunRescue] a bit OT but...

Tim Hauber tim_hauber at STEV.net
Wed Mar 15 16:34:30 CST 2000


rescue at sunhelp.org writes:
>I don't want to cause a ruckus but this seemed like something that you
>should see... (maybe you did... or maybe it was even posted on this
>list... )  www.dot-truth.com brought to you by our friendly "evil empire
>from the north"... a sort of site to tell you how much sun lies in their
>ads
>and how good microsoft's closed standards and proprietary crap in w2k
>is...
>kind of funny that microsoft accuses sun of things that ms does itself, I
>haven't realy seen any sun ads that attack microsoft, but the fact that
>microsoft has actualy created a site makes me wonder who's the better man
>sort of speak, IMHO ms is whining like a little bitch, they say that sun
>will give you solaris for 75 bucks but its a "light" version and it only
>supports 8 processors... now to get 8 processors out of MS you need to
>cough
>up 4 grand for their Advanced Server which is only advanced in that it
>supports what 4 way cluster and 8 procs... and for 75 bucks they will
>smile
>at you politly but not even give you win98... anyway though check it out.
>
>
>
>Stou

That's good, they are comparing a test done last Nov on Sun stuff
available in Jan against a test done in Feb on equipment that isn't
available til August, uh duh, next years stuff better run faster than last
years.







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