Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jojo Mosko who wrote (3649)	11/22/1997 4:24:00 PM
From: Jerry Whlan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14451

I indeed hope, like you seem to hope, that SGI's marketing department will step to the challenge and issue a strong official rebuttal soon. It is one thing to compete fairly on the merit of your products and another playing dirty like Sun is clearly doing here.. Even if SGI doesn't make an official press release, you can fully expect that SGI's salesforce is well aware of the situation and will bring it up whenever they are bidding against Sun. But, Sun has never been about making the fastest box, rather they have a long history in the commercial market with a lot more experience running and supporting the applications there. This don't show so well on the SPEC numbers, but if you compare TPC-C numbers (and probably TPC-D, SGI's lack of publishing leads one to think their numbers are poor) Sun is a lot more efficient than SGI. SGI wants into the commercial workspace, Sun is already there and there with better numbers too. As an interesting historical note, SGI is not above making misleading benchmark numbers either (actually, I don't know of a vendor that is). I believe SGI's SPEC numbers for their R10k boxes (Power Challenge and Origin) where always done on machines with 4MB caches, when for the first 6 months to a year, SGI only sold machines with 2MB caches.