I see this as fine-tuning more than changing direction. Obviously, they're struggling financially, but in general this is a small number of people in the scope of things at Sun.
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Sun has to keep up with the other guys. IBM is going to be coming out with the Power5 soon. The reality is in this industry you have to put a lot of energy into running to stay in place. What happens if you don't make these kinds of advances is you fall behind. So this upgrade is in some respects about maintaining parity with the competition.Gordon Haff
Over time, the performance-per-watt equation is becoming increasingly important. Its power is relative to performance as opposed to raw power or lowest power consumption.
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Those do not appear to be cherry-picked numbers of some particular benchmark on a blue moon with a tailwind blowing.
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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.
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People do not typically leave companies if they are deliriously happy with their roles, but sometimes even people who are reasonably content with their jobs find better opportunities that come along.
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You have to do a lot of running just to stay in place in this business.
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