RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Future of Cobalt

[Bill Gunning <bgunning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Now, Why did Sun buy Cobalt? And why can't they keep a couple of
the cobalt folks to develop an add on GUI for their new line of x86
server appliances... I would pay a fee for a good GUI to turn one
of their servers into an appliance!

Bill

At 12:04 PM 6/4/03 -0400, you wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Kevin Slaton wrote:
>
> > I guess the only other way for sun to get the message is when they erode
> > their customer base away enough that it starts to hit their pocket books.
>
> But I think we lowly Server Appliance folks need to realize that as soon
> as Sun decided NOT to go after that market place(Maytag Servers), we all
> were no longer customers.
>
> We're in a niche that Sun doesn't want, and a lot of us are hoping someone
> will step up to the plate and woo us.
>
> So, instead of debating Sun's policy/motivatio/vision we need to begin
> planning what we'll do when the products now longer have any
> support....and I don't think we can count on the VARs for help, since
> VAR in the Cobalt sense may have been the same as distributor.
>
> Thom
>
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