| Company
Name |
Editor's
Notes |
|
| AlphaWest |
Reseller, open systems
consulting and computer training. Products include Sun Microsystems, Bay
Networks, Cisco. |
|
| GCS
International |
SPARC manufacturer and reseller. |
|
| Integration Systems |
Mass storage & SAN
specialists |
|
| Mayer Krieg & Co. |
Value added reseller and systems
integrator, embedded SPARC products including FORCE COMPUTERS |
|
| MCR Computer Resources |
Sun Gold Certified reseller. |
|
| Meltek |
Independent Supplier of
Non-Current Production Modules, Systems and Networking Equipment, including Sun
Branded Items.
|
|
| Opentec |
Reseller plus own brand OPENFIRE
SPARC systems |
|
| Sun Ripened Kernels |
Independent reseller of surplus
and pre-loved Sun Microsystems equipment. |
|
| Unixpac |
Sun Microsystems Authorised
Resellers and distributors for security firewalls and systems administration
software |
|
|
| |
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Connexion Point
specialises in the repair,
maintenance, support and rental of tape drives
and tape autoloaders in Australia. | |
Letter
from the Editor
When I launched the SBus Product Directory in 1992,
I realised that the UK was not a big enough market to sustain a SPARC focused
publisher. So I started promoting the directory on a worldwide basis.
In
the early 1990s there were more SPARC manufacturers in Australia than in the UK,
which surprised me given the relative sizes of the two markets.
In
those optimistic days before the
death of the
competitive SPARC workstation market, the Australian company Opentec opened
an office in Bristol and became one of the UK's top 5 distributors of SPARC
systems selling their own products and also reselling Axil's SPARC systems.
One
of the advantages of communicating with Australian customers of my printed
directory (before I launched this web site in 1996) was that we spoke the same
language - unlike customers in Europe. But the costs of shipping the 1kg book to
the other side of the world made it prohibitively expensive for most people
except systems integrators and VARs.
Nowadays our biggest market is
the US, and you'll see that bias reflected in the editorial and advertising. But
I hope you still find this information relevant to your own needs down under. -
Or are we the ones - who are "down under"? |
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| SPARC History |
| Spellabyte and
Terrorbyte loved sitting around the campfire, discussing the good old days of
SPARC computing. | | |
Sun/SPARC Resellers in
the USA