Sun To Include SSDs On Server Motherboards

snydeq writes "Sun has announced plans to integrate solid-state drives onto server motherboards to provide faster data access for I/O intensive applications. For now, the company is offering SSDs that customers can slide into their storage bays, but long term, Sun will locate SSDs closer to the server CPUs to cut the bottleneck that occurs when powerful, multicore CPUs have to wait for data to be delivered from hard drives, according to the company. The move could mark a change in how Sun servers are designed going forward, including the possibility of servers that have no hard drive, relying entirely on SSDs."

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Re:But at what cost?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Sun Developers, I understand that you seek for opportunities to make money. Since Java is free, you may feel that making money by integrating the Yahoo Toolbar into Java is a good idea. But that idea is profoundly stupid. Just in case you didn't see the reasons, let me share my point of view:

I build an ERP which has to be sold to customers. I am in direct competition to lots of other providers of similar software, and believe me, ERPs are in todays time only sold by a good feeling you can introduce in customers. Functionality is more or less mandatory since most customers just expect that the whole thing works.

No I have to introduce myself to customers, and if they ask me, which platform I use, I always say Java and try to convince them that the platform alone is a stategic advance to us, and so for them. I the customers already have Java, and Java installs the Yahoo fucking Toolbar, the immediate impression is that its just a bunch of spyware geared toward teenage chronic masturbators. Working professionals don't want this shit on their company computers. This is bad for me, since I don't have any chance to get rid of the VERY bad expression Java makes in advance. Please don't fuck with the reputation of Java anymore. Just because Java lost some market share to that ghastly, bloated collection of toy programs called .NET anyway dosen't mean that Java has to sink lower with Yahoo Toolbar.

With best regards, and the hope for change, Kevin "hung like a mouse" Dawson