The Eclipse of Sun (Microsystems)

Re. Economically-Appropriate InfoSystems Infrastructure Development,
excerpt below from a 4,270-word report entitled [Sun - Scott]
"McNealy's Last Stand" in Wired, Issue 11.07 - July 2003,
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/40mcnealy_pr.html ::

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The Eclipse of Sun
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The rise of cheap servers running Linux has overshadowed Solaris, Sun's
high-end version of Unix. McNealy and company have yet to recover.

Unix vs. Linux
Over three years, Unix's market share declined, Windows' crept up, and
Linux's soared, as measured by sales of servers running those systems.
Still, Unix holds 42 percent of the market, Windows 27 percent, and Linux
just 5 percent.

Server Prices
Even after a recent price cut, Sun servers cost more than comparable
products from competitors Dell and IBM.

Sun Fire V480
Four 900-MHz UltraSparc III Cu processors, 16 Gbytes RAM,
Solaris 8 Operating System (OS):
$46,995

IBM eServer pSeries 630 Model 6C4
2 x 2-way 1.2-GHz Power4+ processor, 8 Gbytes RAM,
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (OS):
$35,944

Dell PowerEdge 6650
Four 1.5-GHz Intel Xeon processors, 16 Gbytes RAM,
Red Hat Linux 8 Professional (OS):
$24,421
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