[rescue] Sun / Linux LX50

Tue Sep 17 01:51:14 CDT 2002

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:24:27PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:00:37PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 wrote:
> > Is it just me, or is anyone else a little under-whelmed with the LX50
> > specs and price point?
> > $2800 for a rackmount 1U PC?  What are they smoking?  They even
> > crippled it with PC133 RAM as opposed to Rambus or DDR.
> 
> Its just an Intel OEM motherboard and enclosure with a Sun bezel, with
> slightly-modified Red Hat.

Wow, it is worse than it appears.  So in other words, I could buy
something off pricewatch.com, slap it in a decent 1U case, and have
the same thing for under a grand.

Sun's x86 business plan sounds like the South Park dwarves' business
plan:

1.  Use clone hw no different from no-name stuff
2.  ???????
3.  BIG PROFITS !

Cordially
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