Good news for SPARC
From: Bronco Nagurski (bronco_nagurski_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/31/03
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Date: 30 Oct 2003 17:26:08 -0800
Part of the decision of x86 vs. Sun is experience. Working with dozens of
Suns over 12 years, I've never personally had a hardware failure or even
anomaly. Not the case with x86 machines I've used.
I'm sure Suns do go bad, but all I've ever seen is the boxes just sit there
chugging away, year after year, requiring only routine security patches.
The only Sun operational failure I have direct knowledge of after 12 years
is when a nearby Windows/Intel box power supply caught fire; the smoke blew
into the Sun hard drive which crashed.
LINUX is hard to get reliable information on; too much religious fervor
and the apostles are willing to go to any length to put the best face on
it, Sovietski style. Use it myself and it comes across as a chaotic flying
circus with radical swings in reliability with each release. Fun for a
hobby, but not interesting.
Sun should do a Maytag repairman-like commercial: Split screen with a
Sun on one side and x86 on the other. The Sun sits there serenely while,
the x86 side buzzes with time-lapse teams of technicians opening the
x86 up, repairing it, disappearing returning, puffs of smoke, more teams,
LINUX clowns partying on it leaving it in disarray, more teams in
to repair, new machine installed, the cycle repeats while the same Sun
sits there serenely. Then some guy walks up to the Sun, dusts it with a
cloth and leaves.
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