[cobalt-users] Items of interest... list waching by chilisoft and current upgrade news.

[SteelHead <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I spoke to a ChiliSoft Rep at the Sun Pavillion at LWE 
yesterday, and he is taking my suggestion that someone from 
ChiliSoft ( a part of the Sun  Family) monitor the 
Cobalt-Users list under Advisement.  I had very little time 
due to ChildCare concerns, so I did not have much time to 
dig for new stuff.  I did learn there is nothing officially 
on the testing block to replace the "Recalled XTR" product.

Here is a news clip from  my alerts today, this will be of 
interest to some of us.... and, yes, 

IT IS ON TOPIC!

Easier upgrades?

snip........
Sun Cobalt has slipped out of favor with some
facilities-based hosters because it missed a critical step
in the evolution of its server appliances--a painful
reversal of fortune for the homegrown company.

Sun Microsystems paid $2 billion for Cobalt Networks last
September. Not long after that, star customers, such as
Rackspace Managed Hosting, asked the vendor about selling
its software separately from the hardware. The customers
were growing uncomfortable with Cobalt requiring them to buy
new hardware each time they wanted to upgrade their
appliances, and suggested upgrades would be better handled
with software changes. They were also, in a sense, asking
Cobalt to abandon its branded-appliance approach to product
development. 

To read the story, go here:
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2807682,00.html