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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: jim kelley who wrote (23547)11/29/1999 4:28:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
SUNW is an inefficient manufacturer of expensive proprietary boxes.

You are missing a couple of things here. One is that Sun's business isn't just workstations ... in fact, I'd bet that in dollars it is much more slanted to servers. All those web-related installations that people keep talking about with respect to Sun don't even have any or many local clients.

The other is that a jazzed up Intel box and a RISC system differ in more than the chip. RISC servers have significantly more sophisticated and high performance architectures than Intel boxes do ... unless you count a few odd-balls like Sequent, but that certainly isn't Dell. Sure, the Intel boxes keep pushing the envelope but they are far behind the curve. The 100MB/s bus you get on some Intel boxes today was the common thing in RISC workstations, much less servers years and years ago.
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