I looked at the original post and noted there is a lag of 5 days b/t the
English original (posted 02/24/06) and the Japanese translation
(03/01/06). If we are doing business in Japan, small things like this
can mean critical advantages. (Of course, this is a bad example, as the
original offer was made on 12/21/05.)
Recently (02/22/06), there's a two-part series about the "superior"
advantages of Solaris that have been largely ignored by the press (in
Chinese):
http://taiwan.cnet.com/enterprise/features/0,2000062876,20103443,00.htm
http://taiwan.cnet.com/enterprise/features/0,2000062876,20103444,00.htm
I expect Solaris to really pick up momentum in China and Japan this
year. For some reasons, Linux has always been illusory in these
countries, especially in China, but OpenSolaris could change this.
Anyone who is interested in playing with Solaris 10 or Solaris Express,
please contact me. If you don't want to go through the tedious process
of installing the entire OS, you can try a couple of different LiveCDs.
NexentaOS (Solaris kernel + GNU libraries + recompiled Ubuntu packages)
Alpha 3 is an interesting toy. Belenix 0.4, OTOH, is a miniaturized
Solaris OS on a bootable CD. If the latter, because of display
problems, you should wait for version 0.41, which should come out in a
couple of weeks. I am thinking about putting together a Solaris Express
VM image, but it may be a while. There is also a third OpenSolaris
LiveCD which is text-based, but I can't think of its name offhand.
Anyway, I really wish we could have an established organization which
could take up Schwartz's offer to try this 8-core 9.6 GHz (collectively
speaking) Niagara. Wayne
Michael Bishop wrote:
Original in English:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=niagara_benchmarks
Amazing to see his blog is being translated into other languages, like
Japanese. I wonder what other languages his blog is translated into.
Quite bold are his statements. "...we'll send you the fastest server
on earth, absolutely free. If you don't like it, we'll send someone to
pick it up [for free]."
The comments are more interesting (to me) then the offer. I'm
surprised they let those stand.
Michael
On Feb 28, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
A friend of mind sent me this news about a free Niagara server (in
Japanese) and asked if anyone has (or knows anyone who has) any
experience:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathanja?entry=free_server_v2_0_honest
Wayne
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