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- From: msf@fusion.com (Michael S. Fischbein)
- Subject: Re: Customers and Vendors (Was sun and customers)
- Message-ID: <BzzF8t.5G3@fsg.com>
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- Organization: Fusion Services Group, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com> <1992Dec22.174827.9514@epas.toronto.edu> <DARYL.92Dec23115048@piano.adept.ih.att.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:16:39 GMT
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- In article <DARYL.92Dec23115048@piano.adept.ih.att.com>, daryl@piano.adept.ih.att.com (55000-Daryl Monge(ih1439)392) writes:
-
- >It should not really matter what HP, Sun, or Dec likes. What really matters is
- >what the customer wants/needs. Any customers that do not want to make a
- >complete architecture switch from 68K machines were screwed by sun and not
- >by HP. Not everyone needs a 50MIPS workstation. 68040 machines are quite
- >capable for many customers. It really boils down to $$$$. And cost is more than
- >the price of the next box that comes out.
-
- Actually, Sun produced Motorola based boxes until they were about 5% of sales.
- The 3/80 and SPARCStation 1 came out simultaneously, along with the 3/470; the
- Motorola and SPARC based systems also cost about the same (for similar packages).
-
- However, SPARC based systems were much faster; customers preferred them 10 or 20
- to 1. Further development would have lead to price differences, as similar development
- costs were amortized over fewer systems, which would have increased the sales
- lead of the SPARC systems...
-
- The 68040 might have made a difference had it been available; for more similar in
- performance products (eg, 4/260 and 3/260), the sales difference was much less.
- However, it was not available until well after Sun had switched over to SPARC
- based systems. Motorola was invited, I believe, to become a SPARC licensee,
- but they wanted to push the 88k.
-
- mike
-
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- Michael Fischbein, Dir. of Security Services, Fusion Systems Group.
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