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

To: Stormweaver who wrote (16029)	4/30/1999 4:26:00 PM
From: LKO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

MTBF for components in a Sun box is no better than a PC OK. You must have great contacts in the industry to have such specialized knowledge. I will go by my own experiences To each his own experience. I have never had to have a Sun box repaired, except a PROM upgrade to plug in some new devices. My PCs need frequent care and maintanance and many have had failures and boards replaced and the cost in annoyance and downtime was not worth the price savings at least to me. There ARE good PC boxes made...but they cost much more also....not too far and occasionally even more expensive than prices for Sun machines if you access to a good reseller. And no, I don't have time to go prove it. I have a day job and already this day is one where I don't deserve to get paid for spending too much time on SI ;-) If PCs meet your need, switch to using them and stop using those Sun and SGIs. However it is possible there may be people who will make different choices than you based on their need. The whole world of computers is dynamic and products leapfrog each other all the time. Companies with a will to compete and a good track record of products and meeting customer needs deserve my investment dollars, as long as the don't give up on their successful strategy and uniqueness that got them customers. Sun has avoided being yet-another-Wintel player and that is fine by me. I have my gripes about Sun products, but MTBF isn't one of them (atleast not anymore, those early Solaris releases used to be crappy but they improved).