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

[Greg Hewitt-Long <cobaltusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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!



so would we.  A decent control panel/GUI is all that's required to turn even a basic 486 machine into a tiny web server.  I'm sure a php/MySQL guru could do it in a couple of weeks.

As I said in my previous reply - the only solution at the moment appears to be plesk/cpanel - which at $1500 per server is RIDICULOUS for a low level server appliance.  A friendlier licensing model from dark orb and I'd jump in that direction... but not the way they currently price things - it only encourages monster machines with 1,000+ accounts on them - until you get to that point, purchasing even a single server license is crippling!

>
>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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