Comments on: Sun – The Internet- No the Software- No the Hardware Company http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2005/12/04/sunswhw/ More Signal. Less Noise. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:29:57 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sun wants to “Change the Planet” at Nyquist Capital http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2005/12/04/sunswhw/#comment-20 Sun wants to “Change the Planet” at Nyquist Capital Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:21:23 +0000 http://www.nyquistcapital.com/?p=30#comment-20 [...] Natural selection between AMD and Intel in the consumer landscape is clearly going to force the evolution of low power consumer CPUs, and you can bet that Google and other enterprises (as we said in a previous posting) are going to reuse consumer technology wherever they can. I just don’t think Sun can build a CPU specifically for the enterprise market and successfully compete with high volume consumer technology that is near parity. I would love to see Sun restored to its former glory but by differentiating themselves in a different hardware space. This will require innovation outside of the CPU with proprietary upgrades of the North/South bridge approach Intel has taken, better (and proprietary) memory/storage performance, or some other unmet need of the enterprise world. // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = ""; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById("authorinfo").style.display = "none"; document.getElementById("showinfo").style.display = ""; document.getElementById("hideinfo").style.display = "none"; } [...] [...] Natural selection between AMD and Intel in the consumer landscape is clearly going to force the evolution of low power consumer CPUs, and you can bet that Google and other enterprises (as we said in a previous posting) are going to reuse consumer technology wherever they can. I just don’t think Sun can build a CPU specifically for the enterprise market and successfully compete with high volume consumer technology that is near parity. I would love to see Sun restored to its former glory but by differentiating themselves in a different hardware space. This will require innovation outside of the CPU with proprietary upgrades of the North/South bridge approach Intel has taken, better (and proprietary) memory/storage performance, or some other unmet need of the enterprise world. // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById(“authorinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(“showinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(“hideinfo”).style.display = “”; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById(“authorinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(“showinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(“hideinfo”).style.display = “none”; } [...]

]]> By: Computerworld Blogs http://www.nyquistcapital.com/2005/12/04/sunswhw/#comment-19 Computerworld Blogs Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:58:08 +0000 http://www.nyquistcapital.com/?p=30#comment-19 <strong>Sun shaves, inkjet stylee (and DIY 19" rack)</strong> In today's IT Blogwatch, we look at Sun's new take on the classic Gillette razors and blades business model. Not to mention a homebrew 19 inch server rack... Razors and blades have more recently been used to great effect with inkjet printers and cell... Sun shaves, inkjet stylee (and DIY 19″ rack)

In today’s IT Blogwatch, we look at Sun’s new take on the classic Gillette razors and blades business model. Not to mention a homebrew 19 inch server rack…
Razors and blades have more recently been used to great effect with inkjet printers and cell…

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