Re: [cobalt-users] What's this?

[Bruce Timberlake <Bruce.Timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

> Seriously, they are cannibalizing from Cobalt it seems.  However, 
> this may be highly useful, a general purpose machine that acts 
> like a cobalt, prices like a cobalt, smells like marketing.  I do 
> have an affinity for the smooth power of RISC architecture boxes, 
> and apparently, the army does too.

All Sun servers (Netra and SunFire included) are general purpose servers,
and do not "act like a Cobalt" - there's no UI, no pre-configured apps,
etc.

And don't forget we have a general purpose Linux server coming later this
summer, being released under the Cobalt brand.


> What says you Bruce?  Any collaboration between the cobalt folks and
> the low end server (I resent my box being called that) folks?

The SunFire V100 is just a renamed Netra X1, which is physically sized like
a RaQ4, and was Sun's low-cost server (<$1000) before buying Cobalt.  It's
a GP box, not an appliance.  You need to know Solaris to do anything with
it.

Since the acquisition, there has been a steady flow of collaboration in
both directions between the Netra team and the Cobalt group.  Each of us
has stuff to give and take with the others; it's all part of being one big
happy Sun family.  :)

> And what about this article:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020602/wr_nm/column_nettrends_dc_1
> 
> Sun abolishing offices and just storing everything on their network?  Do you
> do that?

Yeah, actually the Flex Offices are like that.  It's actually pretty nifty
how it all works, and it definitely saves a lot of $$ on real estate when
you have 1 desk for every 2-4 bodies.  Not all departments do this; mostly
sales, etc, who are (or should be) out of the office on a regular basis.

Or you can be a lucky SOB like me and work from home.  :)

--
Bruce Timberlake
Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

E: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx
T: 877-718-3569 / x69369