SunBlade 2000 vs SunBlade 2500 vs Ultra 45

Zane said: This reminds me of a sad but true story - When I was a lad (198? or so), I was working for a small scale PC company here in Australia. I was close friends with people who worked at the local university. In this day, the 386 was brand new, and that's what we were flogging. My friends at the uni had a problem... A hidden line removal in some of their Autocad drawings was taking days to complete, and they asked a simple question "Doug, should we get one of those 386 machines, or should we get a Sun workstation?" Given that the delays were in the order of days, I recommended that they go for the fastest Sun machine they could get, knowing that there was a version of Autocad available for that platform........ A few months later, they were very happy with their decision. So happy in fact that when the sales rep from our company was visiting them, they mentioned how happy they were with my advice. The rep came back to the shop at the speed of light, and almost got me sacked. The simple message from my employer was that the ONLY product that I would recommend was one that they sold..... Even on my own time..... I didn't stay there for much longer after that. Yep - there once was a time when there was a massive difference between platforms. Much of that has probably gone now.