Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!mikel From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: SPARCstation 2 --> workstation wars Message-ID: <45919@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 23 Oct 90 19:52:04 GMT References: <0093E5EF.ABEDCFA0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 20 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >Sun does sell a Sparc Station for >$5000, and I would say that you get considerably more performance out >of it than a $5000 Mac. Are we talking Apples and Apples yet? Closer, but not quite. A totally mindless drone can open a boxed Mac system and have it up and running and on a network in about fifteen minutes. I'm a pretty big fan of Sun's SPARCStations, but I think you still kind of need to have a System Adminstrator around when you get a new one. I have personally seen more than one situation in which a complete novice was given a Mac with no instructions at all, and they still managed to get useful work done more or less immediately. Now, I think Open Look is a pretty good user interface design, but I haven't seen a lot of applications that use it well. I do not mean to put Suns down; I like them. I also like NeXT very well. I also happen to have agreed for a long time with critics who said that Macs were priced too high. However, Apples and Suns are still not quite the same kinds of machines, and so I don't expect them to sell quite the same way.