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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: QwikSand who wrote (15246)4/7/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: Esvida   of 64865
 
I agree that SunPCi is not a new idea to begin with. Others might have come out with a PC card too soon before the market was ready for it and such a card should play primarily a defensive role. Our competitor used to price it at about 2/3 of the cost of a high end pc. It may work for Sun since costs have come down so much - it should cost no more than $100 to produce them in quantity, and Sun has a large workstation market share worth saving. I arrive at this $100 figure based on the retail prices of AMD pc motherboard. For a few hundred extra, one can provide power-user level access to both Solaris and NT. That's quite a saving even only in the up-front cost. Think about the saving in on-going maintenance. I know for a fact that Oracle developers need both and since they already have old but still decently performing Sun equipment, they opt to deploy pc-based NT to have access to both. This SunPCi card if as good as Sun claims will give it a shot at changing that thinking at Oracle.
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