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Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500
Roman Hauptmann writes "Here's a review of Sun's newest single-CPU workstation based on the UltraSPARC IIIi processor. According to the review, the system barely performs on the level of a P4 1.8ghz machine yet it sells for several times the price. Despite that, the Blade series still brings value to those who do visualization and imaging."
still brings value to those who do visualization and imaging
And that have more money than sense.
How can Apple sell hardware? I mean, how could they possibly sell a single Mac? /me types away on my PowerMac G5
The Political Programmer
...I'd buy a Mac.
That's ugly. I'd like one, but does it ship with a can of spray paint to get rid of the huge red blob? Looks like an angel or something...
> not mass produced generic clones like Dell
He probably thinks evey Apples box is lovingly hand built by Steve Jobs. Mass produced just means `selling well`.
Despite that, the Blade series still brings value to those who do visualization and imaging.
This is by far the most overrated device since the Hindenburg won the 1937 Lakehurst Best Lighter-than-air Aircraft competition.
-- Ray Charles
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Uglist. Box. Evar. That red dot -- if you punch it hard enough, does it explode (assuming you make it through the AT field...)?
what you mean to say there not?!?! next your be telling me Windows is programmed by monkeys..
moo
If Windows was programmed by an infinite number of monkeys, they would turn up in Redmond, knock on Gates' door and say...
Here's Service Pack XP 3
incompetant
did you mean incompetent ?
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
It's OK for Apple, but not Sun, to sell overpriced machines now?
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Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered UltraSPARC community when recently IDC confirmed that Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500's future. The hand writing is on the wall: ULTRASparc faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the Blade 1500 because Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 is dying. Things are looking very bad for Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500. As many of us are already aware, Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. SunSparc is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Sun developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: the Blade 1500 is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenSun. How many users of NetSun are there? Let's see. The number of OpenSun versus NetSun posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 SunBSD users. Sun/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetSunposts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Sun/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *Sun market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeSun users. This is consistent with the number of FreeSun Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeSun went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet 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 the Blade 1500 is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *Sun continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *Sun is dead.
Fact: Sun's new UltraSPARC workstation: the Blade 1500 is dead
"Since my only previous was with a UNIX-based operating system was running Linux of my Pentium II, I was a bit daunted with the task of installing Solaris 8 on a SPARCserver 5. It took me 6 tries to figure out the installer, since I don't understand Sun disklabels. Once I finished the install, I couldn't figure out what these "csh" and "vi" utilities were, so I started poking around in /proc, but I quickly realized that Solaris's /proc is very different from the /proc on Linux, and I started to cry. I then called someone with more experience who fixed what I had broken and loaded up our custom database server software. In the meantime I went back to my cubicle, curled up with my Gentoo Linux eMachines running MySQL, and cried myself to sleep while sucking my thumb."
...the SunPCI card will probably burn the main machine on equivalent benchmarks under Linux (once it's running on this machine)