There’s a good article over
June 29th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
There’s a good article over at Wired about the problems facing Sun Microsystems. They’re finding their market eroded on the one hand by Microsoft, with Windows Server 2003 appealing to the Microsoft market, and Linux on the other, offering the performance and Unix environment their high-end customers want.
Sun have let the Sparc platform drift these past few years and Scott McNealy’s got too caught up in a personal vendetta with Bill Gates. Sun is Solaris, and Solaris only makes sense on Sparc, and there’s just no reason now to go with that platform when Intel hardware is so cheap and powerful.
