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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: cfimx who wrote (6183)12/16/1997 12:03:00 PM
From: Babu Arunachalam  Read Replies (3) of 64865
 
Solaris already exists on Intel processors. SUN will never resell
Microsoft products only and that's what Scott and his army are so
staunch about. What makes you think that SPARC is down and out?

Intel has finally concluded that RISC is a better architecture
than CISC amidst all the discussions that RISC is not a viable
alternative. I read about a lecture from one of Microsoft's R&D
people about future technologies (I forgot his name but it was in
USC) and he was SKEPTIC about RISC technology. What a joke!! The
fastest scalable computers today are all built on RISC processors
apart from Mainframes where the hardware costs are exhorbitant.

SUN's announcement means that they won't let Microsoft eat away all
the profits from that segment.

As long as SUN builds computers (it's like saying as long the Sun
rises in the East) it's going to be on SPARC and they have an
announcement earlier that UltraSPARC III would be out in the middle
of 1998 (??) which would be faster than the Merced chip to be
delivered in 1999. The problem with this superfast UltraSPARC chip is
the enormous power dissipation. I wonder how Merced compares with
this. Nobody knows better than SUN how to build scalable and fast
COMPUTERS and also write the operating system that goes with it.

Compaq and the rest are years behind. ONLY IBM knows better than
SUN but they are dependent on Intel to build scalable computers - so
their time to deliver depends on Intel too.

Cheers,

Babu
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