Sun Startup Essentials
December 5th, 2007Sun Startup Essentials is basically a program to sell Sun Hardware and services with a special discount price for startup companies, like mine (serviSMART). Needless to say that I’m *very* interested in this offer, specially the AMD Opteron SunFire X64 servers. I always liked Sun hardware, and combining that with a good price and the possibility to run Linux on it (sorry, no OpenSolaris for now) is killer. My company has the right profile to apply to this program except one little problem, is not based on US, UK, India, Israel or China. Gotta ask someone from Sun Portugal if we will have this program here in the near future, or not.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:21 am
we run on x4100′s and x4600′s (for virtualization), having dropped the last t2000′s a couple of weeks ago. we’ve also dropped solaris and are using debian throughout all our network (fully supported by sun), simply because the management tools are much better (talking about a couple thousand servers), you just can’t beat fai and apt-get. we still run solaris on sparc-based hardware, though (heavy-duty database servers, mostly).
December 13th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Debian++. Ok, I shouldn’t say that but I’m starting to like it.