[SunRescue] SPARC prices are now in official free-fall...
Ken Hansen
rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Mar 13 09:55:20 CST 2001
My point exactly!
Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] SPARC prices are now in official free-fall...
>
> 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>
> > <DIV> </DIV>
> > <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>
> > <DIV> </DIV>
> > <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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