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[cobalt-users] Why did Cobalt use custom Hardware?
- Subject: [cobalt-users] Why did Cobalt use custom Hardware?
- From: "Matt Darnell" <mdarnell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Feb 9 22:43:00 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Why did Cobalt use custom hardware on the RAQs? I keep reading about the
hardware and ROM issues, it would have been so much cheaper to use white box
servers.
I can only come up with two reasons.
1.Create an image, make it seem more than just software. Create a
dependancy on Cobalt.
2.They had the money and thought they could mass produce enough to make it
worth their while.
Call me crazy,
Matt