Sun prices
Sun prices
Posted May 26, 2003 19:57 UTC (Mon) by dkite (guest, #4577)In reply to: Sun prices by xose
Parent article: The ponytail versus the penguin (Economist)
And the extremely competitive market that companies are working in. For
example, there is a product on the shelves at Walmart that they are selling for
half of what we can buy them wholesale. Chinese manufacture, good quality. The
North american producers will not, can not look at a Sun machine, if they need
something, they will buy commodity hardware with a free os. There ain't no more
this spending 1/4 mil on something that may or may not work. The money ain't
there.
Derek