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Companies that are getting eaten from below have very few options. Do you really think Sun could have made a profit selling equipment at PC margins? That requir
by ssp 17y ago
Companies that are getting eaten from below have very few options. Do you really think Sun could have made a profit selling equipment at PC margins? That requires an entirely different cost structure. If they had tried, you could have written a slightly different comment:
Sun used to make really high-quality equipment, but now they are making crappy PCs like everyone else - maybe they should have focused on the customers willing to pay for quality.
Schwartz's task was essentially impossible, and selling to IBM or Oracle was probably the best outcome he could have hoped for.
- anamax 17y ago> Companies that are getting eaten from below have very few options. Companies die if there isn't an entry point that makes sense for customers. It doesn't have to be at the same price point as the folks eating them from below, but it does have to be some place where customers are willing to enter. The mid/high-range sun systems are about as expensive as comparable PC based systems. However, the PC systems have a low cost option for development. Suns, not so much. It doesn't have to cost $500, but it can't cost $10k either.
- bonaldi 17y agoSun had pretty great entry points on 1U servers around the $1-2k mark. The Fire X2xxx line was price-competitive and worked well with Solaris