Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.
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No, Apple does not need to 'realize' that, as it is not the case. IBM's POWER architecture is quite capable. Supporting x86 and AMD64 does NOT buy them anything in the 'enterprise'.
The priceing on PPC is similar to x86, and Apple is selling HW that comes w/ a UNIX OS which will run on it. If there is sufficient application support, it will make inroads in the enterprise. The fact of it being x86 or PPC machine code makes no difference.
The only people spouting that Apple needs to move to x86 are those who want to run Mac OS X w/o paying for a Mac. However nicely it is packaged as a "Apple needs to do this for business reasons...blah blah blah...", it's really just someone wanting to run Mac OS X on their cobbled together system.
-Kelson