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It is sad. I wonder how Sun could have prevented their demise? It was obvious to me from the late 1990s that their business model wouldn't survive cheap Unix bo
by cabalamat 16y ago
It is sad. I wonder how Sun could have prevented their demise? It was obvious to me from the late 1990s that their business model wouldn't survive cheap Unix boxes running on commodity hardware.
- rbanffy 16y agoTheir best option would be to produce SPARC-based machines at PC prices. A PC is a very kludgy machine. If you don't need to be PC-compatible, your motherboard can be much simpler. Sun targeted the high-performance turf when "average" was becoming good enough. Had they targeted the lower end of the server space (and workstations, to prevent Windows workstations being turned into cheap servers) with the better technology they had, the story would have been totally different. Of course, buying companies they didn't need wasn't exactly clever.