[geeks] Misuse of Java

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 10:32 AM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
>> They seem to be about as aggressive as they've ever been.  They 
>> released an entire new line of servers, from entry-level (V100) to 
>> enterprise (Fire 15000) in the last year, and they had a major CPU 
>> upgrade (UltraSPARC IIIcu).  That's not exactly sitting around and 
>> counting ceiling tiles.
>
> Ah but the V100 is using the old UltraSPARC II family, no?  I tried 
> going to Sun's web site last night but it was down for over an hour.  
> Oops!
>
> They are still pimping machines that are only incremental upgrades 
> over my lowly Ultra 5 (using UltraSPARC II processors)

   Lots of companies maintain a "low end" product line.  Gearing up a 
chip fab is *expensive*, and it pays to use as many chips of a given 
type as you can.  Put simply (and this isn't meant to sound as snotty 
as it's going to come out), if their UltraSPARC-II-based machines are 
too slow for you, don't buy one.  They're plenty fast for a very large 
number of applications (and believe me, there's nothing even remotely 
slow about four 450MHz UltraSPARC-IIs in an E450, as I learned a couple 
of weeks ago) which is why they're still selling like crazy.

         -Dave

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