On Wed, 28 May 2008, James Cornell wrote: > Ultra workstations are too priey for most, they're up there with Macs. Apple > doesn't offer anything in full desktop form for sub-$2000, and Sun's desktops > at the specifications they should be are sold at $1800. Most organizations > buy from Dell because they can get them for $1100 a piece with hardware > support. I doubt availability of Codeweavers CrossOver would help Sun's
It is good that your email account is about to expire since you have certainly burned it up. I have a Sun Ultra 40M2 here and found to be very well priced, especially once I opened it up and looked inside. I took photos of the insides and sent them to all my friends. I have never seen such remarkable build quality. I have priced out systems from other vendors and found the prices for similar hardware to be similar. Most of the Dell PC hardware is low-price junk and you have to go to the top of the Dell "Precision" workstation class to match Sun's Ultra 40. > Sun has a real PR problem and if they know it or not wouldn't make a Sun has always had a PR problem, yet they continue to succeed. From my perspective they are doing most things right at the moment. Four years ago they seemed to be taken over by Microsoft's marketing department but now the marketing is done by engineer's blogs and the vaccum cleaner salesmen have mostly moved on. > market it's a good bet we'll see it but then again I find FreeBSD to be a > better platform than most, it lacks VirtualBox (Which may or may not be FreeBSD is quite nice. Better organized and operated than Linux. > desktop. There's too much nutty behavior in OpenSolaris. I certainly find > 2008.5 to be a regression even though it means well, just too many strange > problems. OpenSolaris is a lot newer than FreeBSD. Maybe you should cut it some slack. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
