[geeks] Disturbing Sun articles

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Wed Sep 3 10:18:15 CDT 2008


On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Yes.  They're still selling a ton of SPARC based *servers*, but there's
> no money in the non-x86 workstation market anymore.

At the prices Sun were charging for their pathetic performance and
laughable support?  Of course not!

IBM, on the other hand, still sells quite a few IntelliStation POWER
systems in the automotive CAD sector.  Their prices may be more insane
than Sun's, but at least they understand performance and support.

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Jonathan Patschke | "There is more to life than increasing its speed."
Elgin, TX         |                                   --Mahatma Gandhi
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