On 8 Apr 2000, at 15:51, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> I'd say they didn't chose the rigth machine. The only reason I still
> buy Suns is to run Solaris (because of commercial Apps). Otherwise,
> there are better and cheaper machines available (PCs, powermac and
> alphas).

Does Solaris for i386 not perform well or is there any other reason 
to go for the sparc?

mike