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I agree. Sun was dependent on selling proprietary hardware at $20k a pop. Even if they had launched a commodity-hardware line, no one would have paid the prices
by gamble 16y ago
I agree. Sun was dependent on selling proprietary hardware at $20k a pop. Even if they had launched a commodity-hardware line, no one would have paid the prices necessary to support a corporate structure built on high-end sales. SGI tried, and it didn't go so well for them.
- kjhghj 16y agoSun didn't even need an expensive salesforce to sell them - we were a government research customer in the 90s and had all our orders for Ultra sparcs cancelled - Wall St were paying above list price for any that Sun could build