[geeks] Disturbing Sun articles

[Francois Dion]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Jonathan C. Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> 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!

Just wish they had stayed with ultrasparc workstation still... A rock
based workstation would have been very cool. Even though my
workstation is x86 based i'm pretty much ssh'd into a T2 based box.
It's way way faster than quad core xeons when it comes to compiling
large projects.