Eric,
re G Moores thoughts & your on SUNW being a gorilla, heres my thoughts :
- in the UN*X hardware space, the hardware market share of the major players changes very often (depending on their product cycles). Just today HWP announced global availability of a server that supposedly beats performance metrics of IBM & SUNW. I'll almost bet that in a years time someone else will announce something "better".
- In the UN*X h/w space I dont see any significant BTE. The BTE's are in the s/w apps run on a range of h/w.
- Consider IBM recently displacing SUNW as the vendor @ Shell, where IBM offered what we call a "mainframe" (S390 I think), but running 1000's of partitions of LINUX!
- given the above scenario, I think it would be extremely hard for me to consider any of these h/w vendors as "the Gorilla".
- Now, if someone can prove that SUNW has a sustainable advantage because of Java & J2EE, then maybe one could say that SUNW is the Gorilla of enabling software for e-commerce apps, but NOT its h/w.
- Until then, IMO, the jury is out, and I would not consider SUNW to be "the Gorilla" of UN*X hardware.
cheers, kumar
PS: Disclosure - I am a HWP employee, but my comments above are independant of that aspect. |
