steve@umiacs.umd.edu (05/05/89)
As Steve Grandi points out, Sun is, as of the April product announcement, the price/performance leader in the industry... for those of you who pay list. I won't discuss specific discount levels here, but suffice to say that certain universities can buy DECstation 3100s for around, if not *under*, the price of a SPARCstation 1. This is from the pricing rumors floating around, and could change when SPARCstation pricing numbers firm up. As always, your mileage may vary. I can't wait to get in and benchmark the SPARCstation series, so I do a pure hardware-to-hardware comparison. Maybe next week... -Steve Spoken: Steve Miller Domain: steve@mimsy.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve Phone: +1-301-454-1808 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
uucp@cs.buffalo.edu (05/06/89)
steve@umiacs.umd.edu writes: > As Steve Grandi points out, Sun is, as of the April product announcement, > the price/performance leader in the industry... for those of you who pay > list. If the MIPS claimed by SUN for this series are the same kind of MIPS quoted for the first (SPARC-based) SUN 4, then the only price/performance lead SUN has is in its marketing. > I won't discuss specific discount levels here, but suffice to say > that certain universities can buy DECstation 3100s for around, if not > *under*, the price of a SPARCstation 1. Why not ? Did you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement to get a price list ? :-) greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny