[PLUG] Sun

[Anthony Schlemmer]

When I was working a contract at Boeing, we had our, as of yet unused, 
production server die several times from hardware failures. Generally 
I've been pleased with Sun's reliability and this was the first time I 
had ever seen a hardware failure on a Sun machine.

Tony

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 13:30 pm, 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.
>
> Hyperbole abounds,
> J.

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Anthony Schlemmer
aschlemm at attbi.com
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