Re: SUN fails to advertise VMS...

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 05/11/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:48:45 +0100

John Smith wrote:
>
>
> JF,
>
> Perhaps their ad campaign is a reaction to Customer experiences like
> this:
>

Sadly you would be incorrect, Sun started the HP Away campaign
before HP started their Solaris migarion campaign so unless
you have developed a working time machine the reaction is
all the other way arround.
> http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2004/040211a.html
> "Belkin Plugs in HP Superdome System; Unplugs Sun
>
> Manufacturer taps HP to replace Sun Solaris and consolidate information
> technology infrastructure; Performance soars 250 percent
> PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 11, 2004"
>

Last time I looked Belkin were using a Sun E6500 and E4500 so lets just
hope that it was a really really tiny SuperDome that delivered 250%
better throughput. Being 250% faster than a system thats over 5 years
old and having a TCO thats lower than a system thats over 5 years old
isn't that impressive its what you should expect.

Regards
Andrew Harrison
>
> Kerry,
> You know how this game is played...the announcements NEVER mention that the
> technology which was displaced was years old, so of course the newer
> hardware performs 250% faster.
>
> Was Belkin replacing a collection of Sun 3's running on a 10BaseT network
> with 2400 rpm disk drives or a Sun server of vintage 2003 running a SAN with
> 18,000 rpm scsi drives in RAID 5 on a SAN with a fiber backbone?
>
> Doesn't matter which vendor is issuing press releases like these - the
> performance numbers are bogus because it isn't an apple-to-apples
> comparison.
>
> HP could have issued the same sort of press release touting a customer's
> improvement of 250% by purchasing the latest Alphaservers vs. the throwing
> out the latest Itanics.
>
>

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