Over the past year the intermittently profitable Santa Clara, California computer maker has moved from quoting traditional pricing-per processor for hardware, per user for software-toward a surfeit of new choices.
Over the past year the intermittently profitable Santa Clara, Calif. computer maker has moved from quoting traditional pricing--per processor for hardware, per user for software--toward a surfeit of new choices.
Also significant, company officials said, is that the 12-way processor Sun Fire 4800 reached 60, 000 operations per second running the SpecJBB Java Application Tier, while the 24-way processor Sun Fire 6800 reached 109, 000 operations per second.