[rescue] UnOracle patches for Solaris
Dave Fischer
dave at cca.org
Wed May 19 15:19:05 CDT 2010
andrew at jones.ec writes:
>By the mid-90s, server revenue was more than 50% of SGI's business. Their
>knockout hits were the Challenge L and the Origin 2000. The O2k in particular
>was a full decade ahead of the state of the art, challenging supercomputer
>vendors head-on with a single system image running a standard UNIX.
So the question is, coming out of the late-90s, why didn't SGI crush
Sun in the high-end server niche?
I think it was largely the popularity of Solaris versus IRIX.
And some of that can be traced to Sun being hobbyist-friendly.
(What was the price of an E10K versus a comperable Origin-2000?)
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