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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: rudedog who wrote (24146)12/6/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
2 of the DELL boxes are roughly equivalent

Depends on what you are trying to do. Using this logic, every mainframe in the world would have long since been replaced by an array of PCs, but clearly that hasn't happened.

True, part of the reason for this need for big iron is because most people don't know how to write and don't have the tools for developing distributed applications. The one notable on the tools front is Forte, a division of Sun.
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