Intel targets Sun in chip war. CW360.com May 15 2002 11:17AM ET [Moreover - moreover...]
"The decision last year by HP and Compaq to drop their RISC chips and offer Intel-only products could appear to leave Sun isolated by sticking to its Solaris proprietary chips and operating system."
How is Wintel any less proprietary than Sparc + Solaris? Actually you could make the case that it's more, since the RTL for microSparc and picoJava are available under Sun's Community Source License (though of course you are free to engage in "free license holy wars" on your own time).
Who's left making workstation-level processors these days? Intel (but they don't make workstations), Sun, IBM. HP getting out, MIPS is mostly in games or something, everyone else seems to be looking at embedded. I have to (rhetorically) wonder: if processors matter then how did DEC Alpha disapear?
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