[rescue] Sun crushes the used Sun market

[Peter Corlett]

Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
[...]
> They just announced an $895 Opteron system, or, if you pay $30 a
> month for 3 years, they give you the hardware, plus Sun Studio 10
> and some other software, plus they give you a Sun support contract
> (which I suppose lets you access all the stuff that used to be
> free).

Which works out at a touch under #500, and about what I'd budgeted to
build a replacement desktop. I'd bite if they could be bothered to
sell the Ultra 20 in the UK market. (There's no mention on uk.sun.com,
anyway.)

Oh well, random grey import components and a copy of Sarge it is
then...

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