[SunRescue] New Sun midrange servers...

[Peter L. Wargo]

I see where the new UltraSPARC-III midrange (Sun Fire) servers are out, both on 
sun.com and sunhelp.org. (Keepin' it fresh, Bill!)

Some idiot wrote the following in the "Article Comments" section:

"intel still smoking sun at 1ghz...where are suns promised faster chips?? 

no IT manager in their right mind would choose sun/solaris when they can go 
intel/linux at over 50 times the performance and stability.

this is disturbing when sun should be shipping 2-6ghz cpus today and keeping 
solaris in the front but instead they take a back seat and watch linux rule the 
enterprise 

sigh"

Besides thinking he's e.e. cummings, I have to wonder what this idiot is 
smoking... Clock speed ain't everything, and I suspect the UltraSPARC-III will 
be fast as all s**t.  

I've got a wish list that includes the deskside Sun Fire 4800... Man, that would 
make a nice basenji.com, with 12 procs and 96GB of RAM... <big, dreamy grin>  
All I need is $365K for the base 4-proc/8G system, and whatever else the other 8 
procs and 88G costs... 

-Pete
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Peter L. Wargo
pwargo at basenji.com
Owner/operator of basenji.com.