Quoting Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
What do you guys think of this?
I think it's yet another niche product from the company becoming more and more reliant on niche products all the time. Don't get me wrong, it'd be very helpful for things like disasters (as some have said) and possibly even things like temporary use while a "real" data center is built, or on-site things like oil exploration (I forget where I first heard that idea). But when it comes to real computing for companies that's not just temporary.. no company is going to want that in a container like that. Especially if they'll ever outgrow one.
Ol' John Schwartz at Sun talks about it like companies will just buy these and stack them up or something... ain't gonna happen. At least not by any company that expects to be around for any time to come. Most companies would likely offsite with data center providers before putting groups of these next to their building for long term use.
It's almost as bad as his Thumper announcement. And the fanboy's were licking his boots on his blog like they'd invented this great new thing... only thing was, even tiny shops like Pogo linux had the same technology 3-4 years earlier... funny they either all missed that or ignored it. Sure, Sun bumped the space in the 4U space a bit and incrementally improved over the other designs, but it was no huge breakthrough like they acted.
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