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Indeed, while Dell, et. al. just spent their time pumping out ever-cheaper products, Sun actually spent cash developing the aformentionted technologies. Nice "
by lallysingh 17y ago
Indeed, while Dell, et. al. just spent their time pumping out ever-cheaper products, Sun actually spent cash developing the aformentionted technologies.
Nice "real success": killing the innovators in the UNIX space and letting the vultures come in and eat up all the market share.
- mseebach 17y agoSPARC with Solaris is pretty inferior to Linux on x86 for many purposes, including the entire web-stack. This competition forced Sun to innovate, giving us the UltraSPARC T1 and T2, which is simply amazing technology. Suns UNIX innovation (i.e. Solaris 10 with dtrace and ZFS) came as a response to the success of Linux, not in spite of it. Sun paused to sleep on their .com laurels, and it killed them.