Comments on: Sun, Eco Friendly Computing And The Long Tail http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2005/12/13/eco-friendly-computing-and-the-long-tail/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2005/12/13/eco-friendly-computing-and-the-long-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-81 simon Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:08:24 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=64#comment-81 Hi errr... Bart, I don't disagree that Sun hardware is getting attention today, and rightly so. To quote myself, "I think Sun now has a great product line-up. In truth, they may well be better positioned than they were even when they did so well in the last bubble." My point was that the business challenges Sun faces today are very different to the business challenges it faced during the bubble. If Sun makes the same kind of money in the future, as it did in the past, it will be a greater achievement. Also, in terms of numbers of shipments in Q3 (forgetting about profitability for a second), it's my understanding that Dell is at the number one position in the US in shipments of "industry standard servers", and Sun is at number five (with Sun growing its numbers by 70%). In other words, there are more people buying new Dell industry standard servers than are buying new Sun industry standard servers. Sun's growth rate in this sector is pretty high though, so things will get pretty interesting if this rate of growth continues... Hi errr… Bart, I don’t disagree that Sun hardware is getting attention today, and rightly so. To quote myself, “I think Sun now has a great product line-up. In truth, they may well be better positioned than they were even when they did so well in the last bubble.”

My point was that the business challenges Sun faces today are very different to the business challenges it faced during the bubble. If Sun makes the same kind of money in the future, as it did in the past, it will be a greater achievement.

Also, in terms of numbers of shipments in Q3 (forgetting about profitability for a second), it’s my understanding that Dell is at the number one position in the US in shipments of “industry standard servers”, and Sun is at number five (with Sun growing its numbers by 70%). In other words, there are more people buying new Dell industry standard servers than are buying new Sun industry standard servers. Sun’s growth rate in this sector is pretty high though, so things will get pretty interesting if this rate of growth continues…

]]> By: Bart Simpson http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2005/12/13/eco-friendly-computing-and-the-long-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Bart Simpson Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:35:55 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=64#comment-80 I'm in the midst of replacing a ton of Dell systems with Sun's Galaxy platform - and saving HUGE space and power, and increasing performance. So I'm not sure of what happened in the 90's bubble, but I can tell you their systems are getting a lot of attention today... I’m in the midst of replacing a ton of Dell systems with Sun’s Galaxy platform - and saving HUGE space and power, and increasing performance. So I’m not sure of what happened in the 90’s bubble, but I can tell you their systems are getting a lot of attention today…

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