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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chic_hearne who wrote (34709)	8/26/2000 6:45:32 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun appears to have been less than open about memory problems with their systems. I wonder why they felt it to be advantageous to put customers with errant systems under NDA, but a simple management foul up seems most likely. It happens inside the best of companies, eventually it will happen in CSCO too, at which point I'll be able to make the entry I've been wanting to make for the past five years (stupid me). At least Sun appear to be mea-culpa'ing and learning from the event. To the extent of even designing around it with mirrored memory modules in future server designs: outstanding! They will now have no single point of system failure: multiple CPU's, raid disks, multiple network connections, and now redundant memory. They're not Tandem's yet, but they are close. So, enjoy installing your IBM's for now, but I guess plugging one computer in is much the same as the other so your skill's won't become obsolete as SUNW takes over the enterprise (just teasing, I assume you do more than uncrate and plug them in). P.