Sparc Quotes

We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation. - David Yen

We welcome people considering Unix as an alternative for NT. We would like them to be sure to be running on the SPARC platform. - Barbara Kay

SPARC is the number two platform for Linux, but it's a distant number two. Sun is doing whatever it can to get some [Linux business] on the SPARC platform, but I think it's pretty much an Intel story. - Kimball Brown

SPARC for some time has not been highly regarded for various reasons. We adopted a completely different design philosophy. - David Yen

Doesn't fundamentally change UltraSparc and Sun's positioning in any way. It's the type of incremental upgrade that computer makers sort of have to deliver. - Gordon Haff

[The Philadelphia Stock Exchange is close to that -- its entire mission-critical trading system is based on either Sparc or x86-based Sun servers, all of which run Solaris. The exchange in July went live with a new options-trading platform running on x86-based Sun servers, and CIO Bill Morgan plans to evaluate the Galaxy systems as well as new Sparc systems next year.] I'm in a business where we handle 120,000 messages a second now, and it's going to be over 200,000 next year, ... Whenever I hear a vendor is striving to upgrade capacity, that's music to my ears. - Bill Morgan