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Andre van Eyssen <nntempt@africa.purplecow.org> writes:

>On 2007-08-01, Kralizec Craig <cd@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:

>> Pity they didn't leave the Cobalt line alone instead of killing that off, so
>> hopefully that won't be repeated.

>Sun's mistake wasn't killing off Cobalt, it was buying them in the first 
>place. To be honest, the market for Cobalt's products has been and gone - 
>there really isn't the demand post dot-bomb for overprices crappy hardware 
>just to run a canned "hosting" solution. Better off leaving them to the 
>Japanese collector market.

I think Cobalt would be doing very well for themselves if the company had
been left alone. Sun wanted the rights to the technologies, not the actual
hardware. It's almost 'asset stripping' but I think Sun's marketting people
realised that if they killed the brand straight away it would have ruined a
significant chunk of the market for server appliances.

Otherwise I agree that it's something which demand for has dropped right
off. However there are many generic rack-mount servers around now so it set
a trend. Sun's t105's, etc. were part of that trend-setting. They were
around well before any of the PC makers cottoned on to the single-unit
rack-mount server idea.

>> I think Tadpole merged with RDI - I remember seeing Tadpole/RDI systems for
>> a while.

>RDI's SPARC laptop business was sold to Tadpole. I had a pair of the RDI 
>SS5-style laptops - they were quite hideous.

Does anyone make ruggedised Sparc systems similar to the military-spec PC's
made by places like OpenTec here in Australia, and Getac in the USA? I have
only ever seen normal-spec Sparc laptop/palmtop systems to date.

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