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The End of Sun's Cobalt Servers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the they-were-so-cute-too dept.

knighten writes "Sun Microsystems has taken the last of its Cobalt line of server appliances off the shelves in favor of the AMD based Sun Fire line." The article makes note of several relevant bits of history regarding Cobalt, the Appliance Server market, and Sun's Linux strategies.

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  1. Sun has released all code under BSD license by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sun has been very generous and released ALL the code from the Qube 3 and now the RaQ 550 under BSD license. See open.cobaltqube.org for more info.

  2. Cobalt was dying anyway by VJoseph · · Score: 3, Informative

    Netcraft has some information about a decline in the number of sites running on Cobalt servers, and about Sun discontinuing them.

    http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/12/19/sun _d iscontinuing_cobalt_linux_servers.html

    It's kind of sad that they puchased Cobalt for $2 billion, not too long ago, and now they're discontinuing the Cobalt line. That's $2 billion down the drain. When Sun is making business decisions like this, it's hard to image them being a major force in the computer industry for much longer.

  3. Re:Continued Support by mcbridematt · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Qube 3 and RaQ 550 Source code was released to the Cobalt Users Group of Japan under a BSD-link license.

    Since their server is down, this is the google cache

    Did you know that Cobalt has the biggest market share of on-line Linux servers after Redhat?