RE: [cobalt-developers] nice knowing you all!

[Mike King <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let's hope this does not happen. Cobalt clearly have a niche in low cost
dedicated boxes, and let's hope that Sun will be smart enough not change
the target market, because there are other options coming available (Dell,
Compaq) are now providing 1RU servers.

Mike

At 18:28 21/09/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Would you pay this for a cobalt (uh, Sun) product?
>
>  Basic Raq3 with solaris  -  $7500
>        Web Server Option  -  $1200
>               FTP Option  -  $1000
>       Mail Server Option  -  $1200
>          Support Package  -  $1000/yr
>
>I think not!   I think thats where we're headed...
>
>Kiss the best turnkey server solution for the internet goodbye!
>
>Jim
>
>
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>Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] nice knowing you all!
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>
>On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Gordon Garb wrote:
>
>> >Sun bought Cobalt today.
>>
>> That is true. You can read details at sun's web site, http://www.sun.com/.
>
>It's not true, it's a *proposed* merger, which means it still has to be
>approved by the voting share holders and the board.  You guys may be all for
>it, but it's not a done deal yet.  If the acquisition goes through, it is
>not
>planned to be completed until Dec. 31.  A lot can happen between now and
>then.
>
>I love this quote
>(http://yahoo.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2814541.html?pt.yfin.cat_fin.txt.ne):
>
>	However, in the long term, Sun expects to move
>	Cobalt's products over to Sun's UltraSparc CPUs and
>	its Solaris operating system, Schwartz said.
>
>So much for Linux, eh?  That'll win you some friends.
>
>	--Arthur Corliss
>	  Programmer/Administrator
>	  Gallant Technologies (http://www.gallanttech.com/)
>
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