Stealing each other's clothes.
Sun Microsystems' struggle with IBM raises doubts about Sun's long-term strategy. On September 25, 2001, Sun launched its most powerful computer yet—the Sun Fire 15K—aimed at competing directly with the mainframe computers that dominate large companies' data centers. As the leading manufacturer of...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 361; pp. 61 - 63 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
11/10/2001
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