Subj : Re: Weird Sun Pricing
To   : tenser
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Feb 08 2024 08:14:00

-=> tenser wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 te> Yup.  The Ultra 5 had PCI and, I think, IDE disks.  That
 te> was the signal that Sun had lost, for me.  I remember a
 te> sysadmin friend showing me an Ultra 5 or 4 next to a Pentium
 te> machine from IBM: "yup, the Sun is twice as fast, but the
 te> PC costs a quarter what the Ultra does."  That was it: x86
 te> was going to eat SPARC's lunch, and it did.

I lived through those times, too. I was a *BSD/Solaris admin in the mid
to late 90s, Linux wasn't quite ready for primetime.

In 2000, I managed a web site that ran a stack of cheap Intel linux
boxes running Apache with an Oracle/Sun back end. Sure, it didn't run as
well as a Solaris front-end, but you could buy a bunch of white-box
servers for the price of a Sun.

Then, a couple of years later, people thought to replace Sun/Oracle with
Linux/MySQL, and it was all over.

Good times while they lasted, though.



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