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Re: what pizza box sparcs are Solaris 9 or 10 capable?

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From: Doug McIntyre
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:14
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Kralizec Craig <cd@lios.apana.org.au> writes:
>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.
...

If their constant-revolving bugs didn't kill them first.. 

My favorite was all the little weird things you could do through the
GUI that would zap the whole config and you'd have to setup all the sites
again from scratch. 

Or how rebuilding the thing took half a day at best. 

Or the RAID card in some models that didn't work, you couldn't
actually plug a 2nd drive into the system without getting an unusable system.
Official workaround? Don't use the RAID card you paid for, actually
that model was better off being upgraded to the next anyway for other reasons.
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