The problem is clarity [LWN.net]

The problem is clarity

Posted May 22, 2005 13:24 UTC (Sun) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010)
In reply to: The problem is clarity by hansl
Parent article: Sun Seizes Tarantella (IT-Director)

As far as Sun's "slow hardware" goes, it seems the x86 ports are getting more attentions. And Sun seems to be pushing branded Opteron boxes. I would think that takes care of much of the slowness and expense associated with Sun hardware. Whether or not those Opteron boxes will have the bulletproofness of classic Sun boxes remains to be seen.

As for the "process", I'll wait and see on that as well. Sun's engineers will be as good as ever. However, I suspect the custom licensing will limit the size of the development community Sun hopes to create.

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The problem is clarity

Posted May 22, 2005 14:07 UTC (Sun) by hansl (subscriber, #5086) [Link]

> Sun seems to be pushing branded Opteron boxes

How is that going going to help? I bet those "branded Opteron
boxes" are going to be more expense than non-branded Opteron
boxes that Redhat is willing to give me support on.

And how can Sun afford to compete with it's own multi-billion
dollar hardware investment called Sparc? By letting me pay for
it? No thanks.

As for the bulletproofness of Sun hardware, you can buy 2
Opteron boxes for the price of one Sun box to achieve higher
availability as well as more than twice the performance of
that single Sun box.

-Hans