Re: [cobalt-users] Sun Fire V100/V120

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Timberlake wrote:

> Everything but
> the 550 has either been EOL'd or probably will be very soon. Almost
> all of the 'old' Cobalt people left are on Sun Linux and LX50 teams
> now. Not many (any?) people doing any support work for the older
> products, and I don't believe anything new is in the works...

The time has come the Walrus said, to speak of many things....

of End-of-Life, and Cobalt RaQs, and alternative things...

Like perhaps other appliance operating systems?

Like perhaps an alternative commercial or non-commercial upgrade path
for RaQ3s and RaQ4s?

How about for the XTRs?  Are there enough of them in the wild for enough
users to be interested in an upgrade path?

And how about an upgrade path for the 550; it may eventually be EOL'd as
well, and it seems as if there won't be a replacement.

If you're interested in an upgrade path for your RaQ, please let me
know; I'll be starting a list for discussion of alternate upgrade paths
by the weekend.

Jeff



> 
> Sun management was always very intent on keeping Linux/Intel separate
> in as many ways as possible from anything Solaris/SPARC.  Having a
> low-end Solaris-based appliance would be too much of a marketing
> disaster for them to try and spin.
> 
> For what it's worth, early on in the acquisition there was a LOT of
> interest in porting the Cobalt UI to Solaris to make the darn things
> easier to handle.  Solaris engineers were continually amazed at how
> quickly I could set up a Qube/RaQ/etc, and wished aloud many times
> that Solaris were that easy...
> 
> - --
> Bruce Timberlake
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