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Sun President Says PCs Are Relics

Posted by Zonk on from the my-favorite-relic dept.

christchurch map writes "Jonathan Schwartz, president of server and software maker Sun Microsystems, said that the personal computer is increasingly becoming a relic. Instead, what has become important are Web services on the Internet and the majority of the world will first experience the Internet through their mobile phones." From the article: "Schwartz points to the increasing wealth and power of companies, like eBay, Google, Yahoo and Amazon.com, that profit from free services available over the network. Among his audience, many more people said they'd rather have access to Internet services than their desktop computing applications. And Microsoft--the company with the biggest financial stake in the PC software business--has struggled to cope with the arrival of Web services."

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  1. Oh crap. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    I guess I grossly overpaid on my dual core AMD64 3800+ relic which I built just today.

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  2. Well, yeah by gerf · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should have just bought a WebTV! I mean, who needs anything else?

  3. don't forget FULL-SIZED PORN!!! by simetra · · Score: 3, Funny

    Really, it all comes down to porn. How happy can you get with a tiny phone display?

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  4. Re:Screen size by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is
    good
    enough
    4 me

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  5. Re:I don't think so. by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    you can still go duel etc... core

    Does this mean my CPU will fight to the death?

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  6. Re:great Sun tries to push the network computer ag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    For their witty advertising and engineering prowess of course!

  7. And in other news... by supabeast! · · Score: 1, Funny

    Scientists have discovered aliens living in the executive office suites at Sun Microsystems headquarters. These strange creatures require methane to survive, fear daylight, and thus spend 99% of their lives with their heads inserted in their own rectums. The aliens remove their heads from their rectums only to make pronouncements about the way computing is done on their own homeworld, where fiber-optic cable occurs naturally instead of dirt, and stale RISC processor designs run twice as fast as their contemporary x86 counterparts.

  8. Schwartz knows his relics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That cheesy ponytail he wears is one hell of a relic.