Re: [cobalt-users] Goodbye Carrie

["Rik Thomas" <rikt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Sagar" <shortfork@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Goodbye Carrie


> >I see Carrie has suspended adding new customers while she migrates
all her
> >customers off her Cobalt RaQ's.
> >
> >Goodbye Carrie, we have been missing your knowledge here.  At least
there
> >are the archives.
>
> Frankly, we have Sun/Cobalt to thank for this. Carrie and I are at
the same
> host and this host is a huge volume dealer.. He used to be a huge
volume
> dealer with Cobalt products. They have seen fit to keep their
pricing
> outside his boundries and he has all but abandonded them as a
result.
>
> What could have been!
>
> I too may eventually abandon the Cobalt platform if the XTR does not
become
> available at that host at a competitive price.
>
> Cobalt really did open up the dedicated server industry to "newbies"
like
> myself and others and now they seem bent on losing their position.
>
> It really is too bad in my eyes. I like the platform, the ease of
adding new
> hosts is hard to beat and I'm used to being spoon fed my updates in
.pkg
> form..
>
> But. If I need greater performance than a 450mhz machine.. at an
affordable
> price.. where else can I look?
>
> WS

What cobalt first failed to recognize and Sun due to their arrogence
what the great control panels out there beating cobalt in simplicity
and price.  We can deploy a 1Ghz machine with 512 MB of RAM and Plesk
with an unlimited domain license for about $1300.   We can get about
600 domains, upwards of 900 on some.  This blows away anything cobalt
produces.  Plain and simple.

Sun has failed to realize and is now trying to play catchup to vendors
like IBM, Dell, and Digital/Compaq and yes Apple, that relying on a
proprietary mix of hardware and software just is not the way to make
sales anymore.  I have two cobalts left, I own both.  I have gotten
rid of about 15 RAQ2 and 3s in the past year, either "rented" or own.
My Qube 1 I keep for sentimental reasons and it provides a mirror for
the LDP.  The other is our "corporate" server, because I would never
make customers deal with Cobalt when they can have a plesk interface.

Too bad they refused to look at the competition, it was a great
product line.......three years ago.

Rik
http://www.valuablehost.com


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