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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Mephisto who wrote (39240)12/14/2000 5:47:47 PM
From: Steve Lee  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
"there really isn't any reason why someone could not turn the Ultra Sparc into a home PC ... you've got UNIX and Sun architecture at a reasonable price."

Technically, you are right. They could produce it for about $500 if they wanted to. But...

A) They would have to have probs in their traditional business to go the no profit commodity route so soon

and

B) Who the hell would buy it when they could get a decent Pentium based system with a million times the amount of software choice?
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