Sun enters Linux-fight bound
Sun Microsystems launches Server a Linux-on base of two Pentium III-processors. An important step for a business that always have sworn by its own Sparc-processors and its Unix-version Solaris.
The (very partial) conversion of Sun till the Linux-camp came there in different phases. Many years' maintained Sun that Linux on are best good was for the slightest demanding branches, totally at the underside of the servermarket. But in 2000 names Sun, until amazement of many, the successful Linux-business Cobalt Networks about. Cobalt was the maker of the Qube, Server a striking designed Linux-in the form of a blue cube.
The servers of Cobalt were gepositioneerd as so-called “appliance servers” : simplified apparatuses that forwelbepaalde position (as a webserver) became set-in. With the new LX50-server, Sun a step goes further, for this turn goes it round a computer that released becomes on the “usual” servermarket. Riskier, mean analysts, because the Linux-product line with that closer in the neighborhood comes from the very profitable Unix-servers of which Sun lives. Although. The device remains - as for price and performances - far from the neighborhood of heavy topmodels as the Sun Fire 15K, that 106 UltraSparc III-processors counts. Other manufacturers go wl a to pieces further with Linux. IBM price it even at as an operating system for its mainframes.
The LX50-server turns on a through Sun brought out version of Linux and has an instapprijs of 2,795 dollars.