Hello
Sorry if my message was a little rough, I just had a bad taste in my
mouth after messing around with solaris x86... I suppose it didn't help
the original poster much with their question...
When a company like Sun sells an OS like Solaris x86 for $20 on their
web site, you kinda get the feeling like the thing is in their
"rock-bottom clearance catch-all" isle. Heck, they have other items at
deep-discount too.
True, I probably could have gone out and bought a decent network card,
but this machine was never intended for a production environment, and I
didn't want to invest more in a network card than the operating system.
My opinion is that either Sun painted themselves into a corner on the
low-end server market, or they just plain stayed out of it to begin
with. What I have read recently about Sun, which makes sense, is that
they don't sell Operating systems, they sell hardware and support for
the hardware.
Received on Mon Oct 07 2002 - 08:04:49 MDT
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