Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 2/21/06, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Felix Schulte wrote: > > > > > You can plug them together for less than 500? if you order the stuff > > > from alternate.de > > > > Maybe, but will you get a 3 year warranty? > > I think we have two different types of thinking here. The business > world wants to put in a server and software services that "just work" > and they have someone to call in the event of a problem. A software > support contract as well as on site hardware service with a reasonable > service window. > > The home user wants a computer with infinite CPU, zero response time > infinite memory as well as infinite storage in a redundant > configuration. A perect game playing machine that can also reproduce > the software and services they see at work.
Actually there is the 3rd type of customer: People who write software - they usually fall in the space between the two types. Currently Sun simply lacks a decent development machine which is affordable by students (Sun Blade 100 was in that range) ... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
