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

To: E_K_S who wrote (6446)	12/30/1997 12:53:00 AM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

More Rumors regarding Sun's new product announcement 1/13/98 code name "Darwin "... post from the SGI thread: Message 3052082 ====================================================================== At the $5,000 and $10,000 price points, these boxes seem to provide good value and are an alternative to Windows NT workstations. Let's hope that all the other component software espically the Java Virtural machine are of "stellar" quality and performance. Can anybody provide more details regarding the rumored "Darwin" line? So far I like what I see.... EKS P.S. Also Solectron (the large outsource assembly firm) picked up another manufacturing facility in a deal with NCR. NCR continues to have Soletron manufacture their PC's but now Solectron owns and operates the facilities. (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/971219/oh_ncr_corp_solectro_1.html) ALSO Interesting deal involving SUN and Informix (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/971216/informix_cke_1.html) Informix Chosen by CKE Restaurants as the Database to Power Enterprise Applications - Leading Restaurant Chain Operator of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's Selects Informix Database Technology for its Superior Performance and Scalability. From the article: "...CKE Restaurants decided to move to a client/server environment running Informix database servers on Sun Microsystems 4000 multiprocessors..." "...CKE Restaurant's payroll with about 40,000 employees located throughout the country drove the decision for a distributed client/server environment to ensure processing in a timely and efficient manner. According to Bedar, ''The Informix and Sun combination gives us the ability to best manage our distributed data and scale to meet the increased volume of transactions.''..."