[rescue] Sun / Linux LX50

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, 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 !

Underpants gnomes!

Peace...  Sridhar