Ellison, you wrote "1. The reason why you think they are dominant is because their specialty is the PC's market which uses the media
more.
Rebuttal: Pc's and workstations are two distinctly different markets".
This is absolutely not true anymore. At the company where I work (about $1.5 Billion annual sales), we have been replacing Sun and SGI workstations, on a piecemeal basis, with PC's for the last couple of years. The applications on the workstations were everything from AutoCad to chip simulation to spreadsheets, mail, etc. Next year the company goal is to get rid of ALL the workstations. Turns out PC's, or workstations based on Pentium Pro, or servers based on multiprocessor Pentium Pros, have gotten powerful enough to do everything we were doing on SUNs and SGIs. Oh, we have 8 or 9 servers for our intranet backbone, etc. These will continue to be Auspex's, which have some very nice features Sun didn't have, like concurrently maintainable power supplies and disks. The other reason for going to all Intel based machines, besides their catching up in performance, is maintenance cost. And, of course there's the much lower initial cost.
Good Luck,
Liz |
