Re: [cobalt-developers] Sun's new Linux box... Sun's new linux

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Stauber wrote:

> Unofficial reports prior to the release refered to the LX50 as the Cobalt RaQ
> LX50 (Wired & CNet if memory serves correctly), but indeed, the official page
> doesn't call it a RaQ and doesn't mention Cobalt. So we may as well not
> discuss it here as that'll be highly OT. :o)

I don't know if you've got people inside Sun Cobalt you talk to Michael,
but I do, and until recently, they would have called it a RaQ, as well.

My guess is that they're making a statement.  If it had come out as a
RaQ I'd be saying (as in fact I was saying yesterday in my other role as
an industry muckraker) that Sun wants to support Linux as an alternative
to Solaris but they don't want to appear to, so they're bringing it out
under the Cobalt name.

By bringing it out under the Sun name they're making a pretty strong
statement.

Jeff
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