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Sun's Last Stand

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nautical-twilight dept.

non writes "Wired has an article by Gary Revlin in the July edition about the current state of affairs at Sun. He attributes half of Sun's problems to failure to recognize the emergence of Linux, and the other half to their failure to make up with Microsoft, and finishes up with a server price comparison. An interesting read."

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  1. Prices are hiding data by maitas · · Score: 5, Informative

    In fact, the V480 has a 3 year warranty, if you add AIX license, 3 year warranty, 8+ GB RAM, the p630 id far more expensive than the V480... it's always easy to cheat... No one runs Linux under Power4, since you loose functionality (dynamic LPARs) compared to AIX.
    The Dell machine is far less powerfull (SPECrate comparison) and doesn't include 3 year warranty.
    Those prices are plain wrong!
    I always wander why Slashdot ops. hate Sun so much and loves IBM... will never get it.
    In fact, Sun's is the single company that has donated more lines code in the world (OpenOffice, JXTA, GridEngine, NetBeans, etc.).