[SunRescue] SPARC prices are now in official free-fall...

Mon Mar 12 18:55:38 CST 2001

  Wow...if E.L.I. (aka Eli Heffron) is selling things at a reasonable
price, I'd consider it a sign of the apocalypse.

         -Dave McGuire

On March 12, Ken Hansen wrote:
> E.L.I. Systems, that company that sells Sun hardware at roughly 2x the going used price has listed Sparc 20 bases for $200.
> 
> In my opinion, the bottom has finally dropped off the SPARC hardware market - this is nearly a reasonable price - I guess they got a big stack of systems traded-in for upgrades, and no where to unload them. Corp. that used to build up nice little $500 -> $600 SS/20 servers are probably running towards the $995 Sun Blade 100 system (if possible - since the SB 100 is not SBUS)...
> 
> Just a note..
> 
> Ken 
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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>E.L.I. Systems, that company that sells Sun 
> hardware at roughly 2x the going used price has listed Sparc 20 bases for 
> $200.</FONT></DIV>
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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my opinion, the bottom has finally dropped off 
> the SPARC hardware market - this is nearly a reasonable price - I guess 
> they got a big stack of systems traded-in for upgrades, and no where to 
> unload them. Corp. that used to build up nice little $500 -> $600 SS/20 
> servers are probably running towards the $995 Sun Blade 100 system (if 
> possible - since the SB 100 is not SBUS)...</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just a note..</FONT></DIV>
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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>