> I really wonder what the problems were with Rock > though that made David Yen leave for Juniper and Marc > Tremblay leave for Microsoft.
12% to 25% over UltraSPARC T2+ performance gains were cited by Sun's own sales reps. Some of the performance examples cited 2% - 7% improvement. I don't know about you, but in my opinion, that's miserable. Couple that with the fact that most customers' software is such garbage that it's not capable of running on more than one CPU, and therefore most customers aren't not able to take advantage of many slow performing hardware threads, and the disaster becomes pretty apparent. Sun had a good idea, but they either didn't want to invest enough funding, or didn't know how to make their existing UltraSPARC design into a powerful number cruncher, like IBM did with POWER. However, Fujitsu did manage to do that with SPARC, but their hardware is so exorbitantly expensive, that it makes store.sun.com look like selling peanuts in comparison. If that isn't a recipe for disaster, then I don't know what is. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
