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I have to say I am relieved ... Sun needs to focus on three areas in addition to their hardware: 1. Java - already ubiquitous (ish), Sun gets money for support
by patrickg-zill 18y ago
I have to say I am relieved ... Sun needs to focus on three areas in addition to their hardware:
1. Java - already ubiquitous (ish), Sun gets money for support and software
2. OS and pieces of OS - Sun gives away Solaris, ZFS, MySQL etc., but in return they get support contracts and such
3. Storage (hardware and software) - Storagetek is still selling, and they have SAM-QFS, Honeycomb, and their flash-based iSCSI/CIFS/NFS stack
4. Hardware - Sell me a SPARC T1 or T2 system for under $1000 please, and get your volumes up and people familiar with their performance.
- bitwize 18y agoAccording to my sources, basically all of the truly cutting-edge fab techniques exist only at Intel factories. I don't think Intel is inclined to start manufacturing SPARCs under contract, meaning that x86 is the only CPU arch on the upper end of the power scale that can be manufactured cheaply enough to meet the price point you want.
- e4m 18y agoPoint number two... why not switch to FreeBSD/OpenBSD and drop Solaris? Sun could save a ton of money and still do what they have historically done. Instead of writing and maintaining their own OS 100%, take care of 20% of a good, free operating system that allows this sort of modification in commercial environments. It worked for Apple in OSX.