I agree now that Sun has their new Sparc chips out they can claim to being at least being in range of IBM's Power chips. But remember that IBM is already well under way to developing it's Power6 chips. So if the gap becomes wide enough then Sun may be forced to reconsider. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rumor Mill: Apple explores use of Intel chips Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 17:46:34 -0700
> > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 05:30 pm, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > > Um, hello? How about Sun? You know, that funny Mountain View, CA > > company? > > Believe me, I would love it. However, there is significant momentum driving > us off the Linux cliff. > > I mean, pushing us ... > > Oh, hell. > > > I priced out Opteron machines. I could save maybe $200 per machine > > by building it myself rather than buying an off-the-shelf package > > from Sun or HP. That $200 gets me very nice support from Sun. Sun > > support has rocked every time I needed them. Call up, describe > > problem, get problem logged, have support engineer show up *in person > > with spare part in hand* within 24 hours. > > > > Really. Take a look at the Sun machines. I have been very happy > > with my Sun Java Workstation W1100z running Solaris 10 on an Opteron. > > The likelyhood of getting this company to agree to a "platform" switch to > Solaris on Sun/Opteron is slim to none. Unless you mean we should look at > Sun purely as a hardware vendor for Opteron systems and continue running > Linux on them... > > I honestly never even considered that as a possibility. > > Gregory > > -- > Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu << 1.2.dat >> > > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
