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

["Mike's List" <mikelist@xxxxxxx>]

Maybe someone should lobby Sun to release the OS to white boxes, however,
if you want to enable ChiliSoft ASP --30 days trial, afterwards a serial
number base on your ethernet MAC, etc.

This way Sun stills selling the software, ie. ASP or whatever, and users
get the Cobalt UI.  Hey it's a long shot, but what else is Sun going to
do with the UI.


- Mike


On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Bruce Timberlake wrote:

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> > Not sure if this as been discussed before, but search for Sun Fire
> > V100 doesn't turn up anything, but was wondering if Sun has plans
> > on migrating the stuff on Cobalt onto Sun Fire V100/V120/etc.?
> >
> > Anyone at Sun cares to elaborate?  I like the Sparc platform
> > w/Solaris. How about selling the V100 with all the bell and
> > whistles of the Cobalt. ie. Exact web interface management and so
> > on, but instead of an Intel or AMD w/Linux, it'll be Sparc
> > w/Solaris.  V100/V120 is a nice platform.
> >
> > Just thought I throw something out for discussion, and perhaps
> > someone at Sun pick this up and run with it???
> 
> I can't comment officially, but I don't believe it is a plan of record 
> (at least it wasn't in November 2002).  Appliances in general are 
> pretty much dead as far as Sun's concerned. They are focusing on 
> Linux on 'white boxes' (like LX50) and blades, and on their new 
> 'Desktop' product (whatever that turns out to be).  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...
> 
> 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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