Slashdot Mirror
Sun's Zippy New Chips
Mark the Revelator writes: "Reuters has a story about Sun unveiling it's latest and greatest UltraSparcIII chips. The new chips are being made by TI and are the first UltraSparcs to use copper instead of aluminum for transistor connections. Although they're supposed to compete with Intel's Itanium chips, they only run at 900MHz ... for now."
Comment removed based on user account deletion
Sun is collapsing in complete disarray. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Sun's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Sun faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Sun because Sun is dying. Things are looking very bad for Sun. As many of us are already aware, Sun continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of SunOS. How many users of Solaris are there? Let's see. The number of SunOS versus Solaris posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 SunOS users. Solaris posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of SunOS posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Solaris. A recent article put SunOS at about 80 percent of the Solaris market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 SunOS users. This is consistent with the number of Solaris Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Sun, abysmal sales and so on, Solaris went out of business and was taken over by Sun who sell another troubled OS. Now Solaris is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house. All major surveys show that Sun has steadily declined in market share. Sun is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Sun is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyists dabblers. Sun continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.