UNIX admin wrote: > > Oh, I see. "They have money, so let's skin them!" Nice. > And the prices are completely and totally out of touch with reality. > No it's more like: "They have needs that they feel require a higher end product, and are *willing* to pay for it. - So let's make it for them." It's the market Sun has chosen to go after. As long as that market is willing to pay, you won't see much change.
You're not willing to pay for it. It's your choice. I'd be wiling to bet that if Sun did what it would take to compete at the price level you're asking for, you wouldn't prefer their servers any more, you'd think they were just as bad as the others. It maybe true that you've had a drive that failed quickly. That's not what MTBF means. The M is for 'Mean' or 'Average'. Just because some still fail early doesn't mean that the parts, processes, testing etc. that go into the model you pay more for don't (on average) last longer. If you really beleive that Sun is lying when they publish specs that are higher than for other drives, why would you trust them on other things? Ditto with memory. Memory, CPU, and ASIC vendors are known to test the chips that come off the assembly line, and label them with different part numbers, speeds, or other characteristics. Likewise Micron and the like charge more for the chips that test better. If Sun was charging more, and claiming they were better, but the specs were actually the same, then I'd agree with you. But to the best of my knowledge the specs are higher. -Kyle > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
