[cobalt-users] Bad Update Patches from Cobalt - Whats Cobalt gonna

[David <david_dean@xxxxxxx>]

>Well, we now have had to RMA a total of 3 Cobalt RaQ3's. 
>This latest one is our last one. We have decided to move 
>away from the Cobalt platform and on to something with better 
>support and that is easier to troubleshoot. We have ordered 
>several Dell PowerApp.web machines. I think they will be lacking 
>in the nice interface that the RaQ's have, but the Cobalt interface >doesn't
do us much good when the box wont' even boot!
>
>So long Cobalt. Best of luck with Sun.
>

We've also followed suite... I took delivery of my last RaQ3 just this very
week - but no more 'em - if Cobalt can't do better than this, I'm not banking
my company and finances on Cobalt.

We need 2-3 more boxes up and running before the end of Dec., but I think
we're going to try both the IO Appliance and the Dell PowerApp.Web.

IO Appliance - http://www.iopliance.com/index.shtml

Dell PowerApp -
http://www.dell.com/us/en/ipd/products/series_pwrap_servers.htm

I'm very comfortable with Dell's support and performance, I've bought from
them before... and I think it'll be a much more superior product that the
RaQ3/4 line... it's definitely more versatile. You might also be a bit
surprise how just how easy to use their web GUI's are as well... Cobalt isn't
all that... and they've sunk lately to even less than null, so you have
nothing to lose...

Understand that user's like us are not part of the Cobalt equation (actually
we are - they actually *DO* expect to lose us as customers). But it's the ATT
folks (and the like) that pump Cobalt's blood - not small users buying
1-5-20-50 machines a year...


Good luck!

-David

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