> I hope Sparc will come back ! > I love Sparc since 1994
I think a lot of people, including myself, deep deep down, hope that SPARC will come back. I mean, who wouldn't want an UltraSPARC T2 or a SPARC64 VII in their system? *Drool* But the reality is, managers and gremiums, and not engineers run the show - at least for right now. And these people do not have the capacity to understand that if they churned out dirt-cheap SPARChardware in the millions of units, instead of low quantity high margin systems, they would increaseSPARC's market share to a point where sheer volume would bring in enough profit beyond the highand unrealistic profit margin. Nobody except for the biggest companies will pay those prices for SPARC nowadays, and this hasculminated in big and mighty Sun peddling itself to anyone who'd be willing to front the cash. This in itself isn't bad; it's the way of business; what is bad, however, is that Sun, up to thelast second, stubbornly refused to adapt to the market conditions. Sun lost its mojo. ?And as a former hardcore Sun fan, it pains me deeply to have had to stand by andwatch it. Prices need to drop. ?SPARC hardware needs to start directly competing head to head with i86pc DELLand hp junk. ?That's the only way for SPARC to survive, because other than former Sun and Fujitsu,nobody else is on a commercial SPARC trip. _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
