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Story: Sun's plans...and how they could go wrong
It's quite funny to read things such as "...new generation of Sparc will have vastly lower power consumption than Itanium and Power while featuring faster throughput and superior multithreading..." especially in context of their incredibly slow and fantastically overpriced UltraSPARC machines. Not too long ago running Java applications on Solaris (and worse yet, on UltraSPARC III) was complete pain performance-wise. The only way out was to migrate to linux on x86... And as for the power consumption - you have to use ca 3-4 (depends on clock) UltraSPARC IVs for every IBM's Power5 to get the same performance, so Sun really has to have vastly lower power consumption per processor to achieve the same energy effectivness... Go figure...
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Story: Sun's plans...and how they could go wrong
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Let me ask one question -- and it is not rhetorica... Jim Easter -
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Let me ask one question -- a... Tom Wittbodt -
So, a company that was once admired by m... Dom G -
Name: Tom Wittbodt
Location: New Ha... GregF -
One 'flaw' in the plan you've not touched upon.
Se... No Tellin -
So Sun's strategic plan hinges upon lying about th... Anonymous -
a HUGE, HUGE company is going to succeed by attack... Anonymous -
I am an old timer (relatively speaking, graduated... Samudra E Haque -
A very clear admittance of weakness from Sun. Sun... dukeinlondon -
OH DEAR. Sun really HAVE lost the plot.
Does this... Anonymous -
This is unsubstantiated nonesense. Goodbye ZDNet -... Chris -
George,
I really enjoyed reading your article on Z... Anthony L. Awtrey -
If sun are going to continue down this road its go... Jimmy Stewpot -
2 things.
1.Linux is the kernel and no one ow... Ian S Rutter -
I work with Sun weenies who think that Linux is a... Mike -
There are many pieces to this puzzle. The author h... Pradeep -
It's quite funny to read things such as "...n... Anonymous -
SUN is very scared, they are a cornered animal, wh... Ian Michell -
I was laid off this year, my resume: http://resume... Krassimir Kamdjilov -
@Krassimir Kamdjilov
Location: Bronx, NY
Oc... anonymous -
I'll believe that Sun can out-engineer anything wh... Anonymous -
i wish sun would die and leave red hat alone. fuck... Corey Eiynck -
Red Hat = Linux AND Red Hat not = Linux ???
Recen... Anonymous



