Hi Pierre - Here is some more on Sun's Linlithgow, Scotland facility...
"...Sun Microsystems
(http://semcoe.wmg.warwick.ac.uk/partners.html)
...Sun's own $5bn business runs on a tightly managed network of over 22,000 Sun systems. This includes their recently expanded, class-leading manufacturing plant in Linlithgow, Scotland, which exports workstations and powerful UNIX servers all over Europe and the Far East."
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Here is more information regarding Sun's manufacturing facilities...
SUN OPENS MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY FACILITY IN SCOTLAND
SunFLASH Vol 21 #8; September 1990
(http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/archives/sunflash/1990/Sep/21.08.linlithgow)
"...The new plant joins existing Sun manufacturing facilities in Milpitas, Calif., and Westford, Mass. Like its sister operations, it is designed to flexibly accommodate the shifting product needs of Sun customers. This plant will manufacture Sun's SPARCstation(TM) 1+, the new, low-cost color SPARCstation IPC and future generations of desktop products. The new facility also gives Sun closer access to the European supply base. In addition, the plant will act as a distribution point for the company's products in the fast-growing
European marketplace, which currently represents 28 percent of Sun's
total revenues..."
Also...it appears that another facility was brought online after 1990
"...Besides its three existing facilities, Sun plans to bring another
supply unit on line in the Pacific Rim in the mid 1990s..."
Does anybody know if this other facility is completed?
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Finally, I do not think Compaq or Dell have a research facility like this one....Sun/ITESM Partner on New Manufacturing Research Lab
SunFLASH Vol 63 #48... March 1994
(http://sunsite.kth.se/sun/sunflash/1994/63.mar/63.48.itesm)
"...MONTERREY, Mexico -- March 2, 1994 -- Sun Microsystems Computer
Corporation (SMCC) and Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios
Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) will establish Latin America's first
technology laboratory designed to help industry and education develop flexible robotic manufacturing systems that can be quickly adapted to changing market needs...."
Will some or all of these facilities be upgraded to build these new Intel based Solaris systems....I am waiting anxiously to see the specifications of this new low end machine Ed Zanders will announce January 13, 1998.
EKS |
