Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Sun != Open Archtecture
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.194930.7239@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <36911@cup.portal.com> <5089@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 90 19:49:30 GMT

In article <5089@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>... A company that produces a SPARC 1+ knockoff with no distinct
>differences from existing Sun (or other) products deserves to die, because
>they are not differentiating themselves in the market place...

Nonsense.  Differentiation can be done on things like price, support,
quality, bundled software, and the like rather than on the shape of
the box.  That's how the free market works in other areas.  It could
really stand to work this way in SPARCs, too.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry