Sun to Give Niagara Servers to Reviewers

abdulzis writes "Sun Micro's Jonathan Schwartz says that Sun is giving away free servers to bloggers who do a good job reviewing their servers. From the blog article: 'if you write a blog that fairly assesses the machine's performance (positively or negatively), send us a pointer, we're likely to let you keep the machine'" Mr. Schwartz, if you're reading this, feel free to send us one with "Attn: CowboyNeal" on the label.

Comments

Uhh yeah

[paulius_g]

You guys have to realize, this is called marketing.

To get your "free" server you need to signup with their trying out thing. Which seriously, I'm pretty sure that they ask for credit information or money sources if you don't return it on time. This itself proves that they are wanting to push the whole "Buy it... And return it if you don't like it" theory.

And also, I higly doubt that they'll be distributing these around like candy. They'll probably be only 10 big blogs who will win a servers and all the others will have to suck up and return the servers. I would be impressed if they'd actually be giving out many of these units.

I've talked to my superiors, and nobody seemed to fall in for this.

Ah, if I was older, if I had more time and if I had my blog online...
But, once again, nothing is free in business.

I'll be waiting for comments and checking this story. I'm really interested to know what people think of this.

Sun business model

[melted]

1. Give away hardware for free to geeks who live with their parents and blog from the basement
2. ???
3. Profit

If I were a Sun shareholder (which thanks god I'm not) I'd be pissed.