No more hiding in the server room
Sun to de-emphasize "low end commodity servers"; Focus instead on SPARC
Third paragraph from the bottom:
(EDIT: Somehow this link requires you to have a subscription to the WSJ. I most certainly do not and am not sure how I was able to read it without a subscription... I'll look for a better link.)
(Update:
Here's the link that doesn't require a subscription, taken from my CompTIA daily SmartBrief email:
Veiled mention of "avoiding those markets", in reference to commodity servers:
Well I'm bummed. Here I was all ready to ditch my HP servers and go with Sun. I thought their stuff looked really good. Seriously, I think I need a moment...
I'm better now. So, I'm assuming "de-emphasize" is a euphemism for "search and destroy". I'm scared of Dell because of their support issues... HP's product management offerings have put me off (so hard to manage carepack licenses and their website stinks bigtime for getting any kind of support info). I'm not sure what other vendor to look into.
Alas poor Sun, I hardly knew him. But golden hardware vendors all must, as chimney sweepers, come to dust.
Tags: Larry-Ellison-Punches-Kittens, Oracle, Sun
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Permalink Reply by Robert Chipperfield on -
Hmm, a shame indeed. Like you I rather liked the look of a lot of their Intel-based kit (though sadly I don't get to buy those kind of toys that often!)
I guess it makes sense from a business point of view, though - there's got to be almost no money in the bottom end of the market unless you can differentiate somehow, and they hadn't managed to do that.
Sadness...
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Permalink Reply by Wesley "Nonapeptide" on
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Strangely, it's not like Sun was a basement dweller. They were/are a top-five vendor! Number 4, I believe, behind IBM (Blech!), HP and Dell respectively.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Chipperfield on
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It has been said (I forget by whom now... d'oh!) that if you can't dominate your niche in the market, you need to get out. You can of course define that niche to be what you want, so you don't have to dominate "ALL SERVERS EVAR!11!", but you do need to define your market, and win there.
Not sure I agree with that, mind you - think consumer electronics - there's plenty of brands of TV out there that are all doing OK with apparently little between them - but maybe there's some truth in it.
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