Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> I don't want to get involved in the broader issues in Martin's post but this
> caught my eye:
>> If you find a manager who is willing (economically
>> *able*) to finance all that, then we would probably
>> be in paradise.
>> But all that doesn't make sense, as Sun wouldn't earn
>> a single Cent on that.
>
> We have a student computer lab full of SB2500/XVR600s. This was a very
> standard configuration. The USIII cpu's in these workstations are not
> substantially behind the current Sparc workstation offerings.
>
> When we buy from Sun we don't generally know what Sun's business
> relationships are with their suppliers. We assume we are paying a premium
> price for support of Sun hardware, and that they have chosen wisely both
> technically in hardware and their ability to support it going forward.
But it won't be supported forever - just as Solaris 10 at its
release in 2005 dropped support for SPARC workstations using
CPU's older than the UltraSPARC II (released in 1997), there
will be a future release of Solaris that won't support that
hardware.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
