Star Sun Sounds HP Death Knell in Enterprise Space
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Oct 2005 10:36 UTC, submitted by anonymous
SUN Microsystems HP seems on its way out, or so claims Sun. Sun's Global information systems strategy office, Larry Singer, says Sun hears a consistent message from HP customers: "They have no idea where HP is going. If you chase the decision up the stack to the OS, you realise HP’s OS has had no major release since Fiorina took over," he says. "People only have three legitimate OSes: Windows, Red Hat or Solaris. As soon as HP talks to 9900 or Alpha customers they have to say HP does not have an OS."
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RE[4]: The AIX Apologist
by kaiwai on Sat 22nd Oct 2005 03:21 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: The AIX Apologist"
kaiwai
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2005-07-06

True, but then again, SUNs workstations are a rip off when compared to a similarly configured Opteron system from SUN, loaded with Solaris (or dumped in favour of something else) - heck, why not bypass it and get a PowerMac?

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RE[5]: The AIX Apologist
by Arun on Sat 22nd Oct 2005 17:25 in reply to "RE[4]: The AIX Apologist"
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2005-07-07

Some people just don't get it. Customers run software and buy based on Apps and software. They don't have a hardware perfromance fetish like most geeks.

From what I have heard the SunBlade 150 is still Sun's largest selling workstation product. Go figure.

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RE[6]: The AIX Apologist
by kaiwai on Sun 23rd Oct 2005 00:47 in reply to "RE[5]: The AIX Apologist"
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2005-07-06

I find that hard to believe, given the enemically crappy graphics card installed; if one needs a system, one might as well bypass that crap and go straight for the big stuff like the Blade 1500 or 2500.

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