Comment Re:Sun is good for one thing (Score 1) 553
Beyond that, I'm not sure what Sun machine's are good for.
Shifting I/O is all that matters. CPUs are so fast nowadays that for 99% of apps, the CPU is fast enough. You need good I/O to be able to use all those Gigabytes of RAM and Terabytes of disk. Sun understand this, and supplies it better than anyone.
Of course that makes the hardware more expensive than low-end Intel boxes. You get what you pay for.
