Tuesday, September 30, 2003
The Sun Continues to Set
Don't get me wrong - I like Sun. They make good equipment, the Rolls-Royce of Unix machines (hey, hot swappable CPUs! Whoo-hoo!).
You often don't need a Rolls to drive to the corner market.
As predicted in my beginning-of-the-year thoughts,
Sun is in trouble.
And each quarter it gets worse.
And Linux keeps getting better, and computer boxes are becoming more and more of a commodity.
While Sun does appear to be circling around the black hole of debt, it's still sad. But let's face facts: The way software - and hardware - is used today has changed.
And yesterday's SPARC Station has the processing power of today's coffee maker.
Sun should have - years ago - woken up and smelled the coffee....
- Posted by Lee at 3:58 PM
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