Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)
Posted Sep 20, 2003 17:10 UTC (Sat) by
neoprene (guest, #8520)
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Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO (eWeek)
What is Sun to do? Accept the obvious (that OpenSource is a good thing) or fight for survival of their mature core business?
Price out a 8-way x86 server from DELL and do the same with SUN. The differences in money is not that great, and Sun will get you a 64-bit hardware.
The differences in operating system cost dwarfes in comparison to the hardware.
Sure you could run Linux on the Sparc but after spending ~$80,000 why would you give up the factory support from Sun?
Shortly we'll see Linux on x86_64 AMD Opteron in up to 8-way machines which could be very stiff competition for Sun and cut into the mid to high end server business. 2GHz vs. 1.3Ghz, better memory interface, 32-bit star performance etc may make life for Sun quite challenging. Profit volume from the very high end segment may not be enough to keep the wheels rolling. This does not look like a growth market for Sun. Sun should not busy themselves with burning bridges like SCOX if they want a future in a brave new world. They should instead calculate themselves into a new market place in a realistic way. Spending billions on an indefensible position does not serve their stockholders right.
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