The bottom line is that big companies, especially financial institutions who need scaleability and mission critical apps will
choose Sun boxes for the foreseeable future.
Sounds exactly what they said about IBM boxes (a lot still do) until about a year ago. IBM was the ONLY way to go for scalability and mission critical apps, many said. Now you say Sun is the choice. Well, I'm looking for another paradigm shift here, Tae. I could be wrong, but I personally don't think so. For one thing, today, it takes strong alliance partnerships to move into/keep a space as important as enterprise servers. To me, the upcoming group of alliance partners, which include Intel, HP, IBM, Oracle, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Bull, Siemens, Dell, Microsoft, Red Hat, VALinux and many more, should blow away Sun. Who can Sun claim for important alliance partners? Oracle? Who else? I'd be feeling awfully naked if I were Sun right now. Then there's the cost piece. How well will Sun boxes sell when they are 2 to 10 times as expensive in terms or price/performance? They can't be THAT much more reliable or scalable. It will take time, but I think Sun will get moved off the sweet spot. BTW, McNeally's (and Ellison's) public, near fanatical crusades to undermine Gates and Microsoft can only accelerate this process. Nobody likes a whiner.
Tony |
