[rescue] Sun crushes the used Sun market

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:25:41PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:
> I just realized that Sun is trying to kill off the used Sun hardware
> market. 
> 
> This means good news for those of us collecting the older stuff.
> 
> They just announced an $895 Opteron system, or, if you pay $30 a month
> for 3 years, they give you the hardware, plus Sun Studio 10 and some
> other software, plus they give you a Sun support contract (which I
> suppose lets you access all the stuff that used to be free). 
> 
> Contrast that with the used  $175 V100 I just bought ... suddenly it
> doesn't appear to be as great a deal given there is no support and
> nothing is bundled with it. 

Personally, I'd still find the V100 pretty appealing.  I really wish
that Sun would keep up the lower end SPARC chips, but the appear to be
trying to transition to Opteron.  I know they haven't said that, but if
all their low end high volume machines are Opterons, how long will they
be able to afford to make lower volume SPARCs?

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