Star Jonathan Schwartz: Solaris is the Future of Unix
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
SUN Microsystems 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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by drsmithy on Thu 25th Nov 2004 04:01 UTC

Of course it does. It buys them affordable rack mount servers that can be bought for $700. It also buys them affordable branch office servers that can be bought for $400 like Dell has. You can't touch an Apple POWER box for anything near that price. Their cheapest single CPU model is around $1,800.

You appear to be under the illusion Apple's hardware expensive to buy because it is expensive to make. This is incorrect. Apple's hardware is expensive because Apple *likes* its market niches and high profit margins just the way they are.

Not to mention if Apple ever did sell an x86 Mac (not that anyone would buy it, since they wouldn't have any software to run on it), it wouldn't be a *PC compatible* Mac, it would just have an x86 CPU.