[Gllug] Sun hardware/firewall memory

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:17:52PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:41:18PM +0000, Ben wrote:
> > And don't forget RSC! With all these silly little variants coming from
> > one company it's know wonder disparate x86 vendors are taking time to
> > converge on a standard. Still, standards do emerge - let's hope x86
> > delivers a good headless BIOS.
> 
> I see this as unlikely.  The PC market is a commodity one, so the large
> size of the home/work desktop market has a distorting effect.  PC server
> manufacturers make tiny margins and don't have much room for serious
> improvements to the standard.  Where they do, they use it to
> differentiate their products and do not share the technology to enable
> it to become a standard.

Companies will want other services that suppliers can bundle, like expensive
support contracts. I can't predict the future so we will have to see.
> 
> > If it did, would you accept that x86
> > offers strong competition to SUN in other hardware areas 
> 
> Better headless support would still leave it with inferior architecture
> in other areas: I/O, for instance.

I wasn't aware of a distinction here. What do you mean? I/O between what
h/w?

Thanks,

Ben

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