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   Litany of Failures

   

   Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Apr 2nd, 2009 @ 2:26am

   
   

   Man, it’s unbelievable the number of wrong decisions they made: their first move away from Unix was to bring out a range of Windows-NT-based workstations ... that cost three times what other NT machines were selling for. And then when they finally embraced Linux, they hitched their sails to Itanium, which was supposed to leave x86 for dead, but which ended up way overdue and underperforming, and never recovered from that bad start.
   
   That being said, all the other proprietary Unix vendors seem to have hit extinction too. Except for Sun, which has been circling slowly towards the plughole for a long time...

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   :(

   

   Archer0911, Apr 2nd, 2009 @ 5:31am

   
   

   It's a sad day.

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   Sad

   

   Aaron Martin-Colby (profile), Apr 2nd, 2009 @ 7:26am

   
   

   Very sad. They could have been so much more if they had just adjusted to the changing graphics market. You'd think that the emergence of consumer-level graphics acceleration like Rendition and 3dFX would have given them a hint of what was to come, but no.

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   another mike, Apr 2nd, 2009 @ 12:05pm

   
   

   old poker players never die, they just shuffle off.

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