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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. 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?