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> their ruining their reputation in enterprise space when they messed up an off-CPU chip cache design Yeah, that one was a huge. Sourcing those cache chips fr
by the_why_of_y 11y ago
> their ruining their reputation in enterprise space when they messed up an off-CPU chip cache design
Yeah, that one was a huge. Sourcing those cache chips from IBM, and just trusting them not to knowingly supply ones that emit radioactive radiation was such an amateur move.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2585216/computer-hardware/mcnealy-blames-ibm-for-sun-s-server-memory-flaws.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2585216/computer-hardwa...
http://web.archive.org/web/20020202013942/http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO66102,00.html http://web.archive.org/web/20020202013942/http://www.compute...
- hga 11y agoIt's inevitable, the only question is at what rate the materials in your chips will emit them, and what are the consequences. Smart companies spend a little extra for parity/EEC, they don't blame their customers for machine room environmental non-optimality unless they're really sure that's the problem. He also didn't deny the "sign the NDA if you want us to (pretend to) address the problem". Bottom line, he and Sun didn't own the problem, didn't take care of their customers until too much bad PR was generated, and again dealt with it at least as much as a PR problem for Sun than as a problem for their customers. A bad idea when there are other companies out there offering better enterprise level stuff. Or as a DEC book put it, looking back on the frothy '70s minicomputer market, the companies that won did an adequate job of everything, didn't drop the ball on any of the essential things like documentation and support. Certainly no one bought DEC equipment for their disk drives....