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- From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
- Subject: Re: SunMicro?
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:17:47 GMT
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- wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk) writes:
-
- > In article <N9F8VB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> pkedrosk@student.business.u
- > >yoga@peacetime.Corp.Sun.COM (Yogesh Patel) writes:
- > >
- > >>
- > >> Today, 12/22, SUNW dropped almost one buck on "some" news according to
- > >> my quotetool. I don't know what news is going around. Can anyone tell?
- > >
- > >A complete guess but maybe the Novell purchase of USL? I for one would
- > >be concerned were I Sun Microsystems.
- >
- >
- > very unlikely. what happened was that the quarterly report came in
- > with earnings per share of $.05 as opposed to i believe $.27 a year
- > ago.
-
- I stand corrected, and I am not as sure as I was this morning that
- investors are that concerned about the Novell as Sun's licensing
- source.
-
- On a related note, I would be interested to note what Sun had to say,
- if anything, about their depressed earnings. They are a puzzling
- company in many ways, I did awfully well by them a few years back and
- have become less of a fan over the last little while. I feel as if
- their chance to legitimize Unix as the desktop operating system of
- choice is quickyl slipping through (has slipped?) their fingers. I
- find myself wondering if they're not going to find thesleces in a low
- growth niche market as commodity processors based on that toothpaste
- processor from Intel and its ilk push into what was exclusively RISC
- territory.
-
- My argument goes something like: when Intel was selling the
- '386 as its high end chip -- a (charitably?) 3 MIP machine, Sun was
- selling the SPARC (first generation) -- a 15 MIP or so machine. Now that
- Intel is selling a 486 soon to be 586 that is around (by all accounts)
- 50-60 MIPS Sun is selling (maybe about to be selling, I confess to
- being more than a little out of date) the SPARC II, a 80-100 MIP chip.
- It seems as if the RISC advantege at the leading, bleeding edge has
- gone from 5:1 to closer 1.5:1 or maybe 2:1 in performance with a
- punishingly worse price/performance and a much smaller application
- base.
-
- I throw this out as complete conjecture and am very willing to be
- corrected. I used to follow Sun a lot more closely than I do today and
- am interested in hearing from those more in the know than I am about what
- feelings are about the company these days.
-
- Paul
-
-
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