[PLUG] Sun

Keith Nasman keith at ahapala.net
Tue Aug 13 20:05:08 UTC 2002


On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Jeme A Brelin wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Keith Nasman wrote:
> > I'd like to understand Sun's position better. My (weak) understanding
> > is that they make most(all?) of their profit on the service agreements
> > on their large, powerful systems. With the x86 architecture pushing
> > the speeds that it is, Sun is seeing quite the competition from this
> > front with clusters of these processors.
> 
> Just to make something fairly clear, there's not a single x86 server
> manufacturer that can compete with Sun systems for plain old reliability
> and durability.  Even the few NEBS compliant systems you CAN find that run
> an x86 architecture will fail when dropped from a few feet.  You can
> launch a Sun out of a goddamn cannon without dropping an instruction.
> 

Thanks Jeme, that's the product knowledge I just don't have. What about
all the x86 linux clusters I keep reading about? They seem plenty 
powerful. Are they used for totally different situations than the Sun 
systems? Are they more expensive? less?

Kdog





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