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- From: tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: How does the new 2000+MIP Sun server compare against a Cray/XMP?
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 01:04:48 -0500
- Organization: P.L.T.S., North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
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- References: <lg2hufINNj7k@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Nov11.185638.6416@PacBell.COM> <1992Nov12.223309.7567@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1e0f40INN65d@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1e0mq4INNil7@armory.centerline.com>
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- In <1e0mq4INNil7@armory.centerline.com> matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau) writes:
-
- >In <1e0f40INN65d@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@plts.uucp writes:
-
- >>Another difference is that you can buy a Cray today.
-
- >Yeah, I was pretty surprised when I read the fine print of the announcement
- >and found that the 20-processor version of the SparcCenter-2000 was slated
- >for delivery "2H93". In other words, Sun preannounced the high-end of the
- >product line something like a year in advance.
-
- Well, people who buy such huge computers do need about that time to
- plan.
-
- *or*
-
- Company A can't compete due to Company B releasing better products.
- Company A needs chance to catch up.
- Company A announces that in about a year they'll be shipping products
- that are better than what Company B is shipping today.
- Customers stop buying machines from either company. They already weren't
- buying from Company A, so it doesn't hurt them. Hurts B.
- About a year later, Company A starts shipping wonder-machine.
- Pent-up customer demand results in lots of sales.
-
- Gee, I wonder if Sun is feeling the effects of their Viking chip being
- HOW MANY years late? [*]
-
- Tom
- * -- that's unfair, it hasn't started shipping in volume yet.
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