[TriLUG] Red Hat + IBM, good or bad?

[Charles Fischer via TriLUG]

"thorn in the side of IBM and HP", don't forget DEC.  I think SUN caused
DEC to make some really bad decisions.  DEC would not cannibalize their VAX
sales with lower cost systems.  So SUN would come in and wipe out a DEC
site.  Just stupid on DEC's part.  Companies must be able to see when it is
better to eat your elders than it is to let the competition gain strength
from them.

-Charles


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 3:34 PM John Vaughters via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

>  >The K computer comprises 88,128 2.0 GHz eight-core SPARC64 VIIIfx
>
>    Impressive!!!! I was never at that high end side of the business, but I
> remember hot plug-able CPU's being a big deal for us. Sun was very
> innovative. The proverbial thorn in the side of IBM and HP. Scaling with a
> hot plug CPU before the "cloud we need more processing" concept was a very
> attractive feature for planning growth strategy.
> John Vaughters
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