A new study on the major players in the Unix server market has declared IBM the clear customer favorite and brought to light some serious issues with Sun Microsystems' product line. Most alarmingly for Sun, the company appears to have lost its cachet as the dominant Unix player and done so while alienating customers. Sun finished last in almost every one of the Gabriel Consulting Group survey's categories, spanning technology performance, customer satisfaction and software tools.
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Member since:2005-10-08
"Question for SUN devotee's: why does SUN really suck when it comes to integrating and geting the most out of acquistions?"
They don't. Sun's aquisition of SeeBeyond has paid off big time and netted them major contracts with GE, GM, and several other major enterprises.
I expect the StoregeTek purchase will pay off as well. One of Sun's biggest strongholds is the large datacenter. Datacenters like Ebay, which relies entire on Sun technology to store truely massive amounts of data and handle millions of dollars of transactions a day. StorgeTek will play an important role in these kinds of markets, especially with Sun signing on new JES customers practically every day.
Member since:2005-07-06
<points out to the owners of the site to get a decent bloody database rather than relying on some POS like MySQL that chokes on a heavy load>
Anway, I was mainly talking about the likes of Cobalt, who had a different customer based and yet SUN still insisted on integrating their products and sales into the large SUN organisation - net result? no one could purchase a damn thing unless they proved themselves worthy via getting an account with SUN.
As for the customer service, maybe a SUN employee can point out why it is so abysmal - I wanted to purchase an Ultra 20 workstation, I made a quote requestion, along with that, sent a question - here I am, a few months later and no reply - Conclusion, they don't want my business, there for, Apple won it.
Want to win a customer, how about returning a damn inquiry promptly!
Member since:2005-07-07
Actually, SUN doesn't have much money right now, they spent $4.1billion purchasing StorageTek - it will be interesting whether it pays off, or whether the 'angel of death' comes along, like so many of SUN's acquisitions, and kill any possible value that could have been made out of the deal.
BTW, Storagetek had some 1-1.5+ odd billion in cash reserves that Sun acquired as well. So Sun actually paid some thing 3 billion for Storagetek.
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2005-07-06
Actually, SUN doesn't have much money right now, they spent $4.1billion purchasing StorageTek - it will be interesting whether it pays off, or whether the 'angel of death' comes along, like so many of SUN's acquisitions, and kill any possible value that could have been made out of the deal.
Question for SUN devotee's: why does SUN really suck when it comes to integrating and geting the most out of acquistions? I mean, they're worse than Computer Associates, who buy companies but don't really integrate it, but they don't seem to fall apart as badly as SUN's acquisitions.