Sun Again.
I was speaking to an engineer in my team yesterday while getting a tea.
We were discussing road maps ( which I cannot go into here ) for really
cool new hardware coming out of Sun both SPARC and AMD over
the next little while.
I have been around here a while and was a customer long before that and
expressed my view that these systems design were very "Sun". he
asked
what I meant.
Well the the boxes are simple, pack in a HUGE amount and have a high
build quality ( even for the prototype units we have ). Just to show
him I
put one of our 2u rack mount systems next to a new IBM Xeon 2u
system
( yes, we test Solaris x86, Java and of course JES on NON Sun hardware
really )
and the difference was amazing. The IBM has got so many additional
components
which make it look like a KIT built from spare bits and I'm just
talking the
packaging.
I'd love to post pictures but you'll have to wait a while longer to try
one
for yourself, even with the system packaging we're back to
where we
started putting standard bits together better than anyone ;) if you run a
datacenter with 100's of rack mount unit you'll LOVE these.
P.S. The IBM runs Solaris x86 just great. J2SE runs fine on it with XP
( yes we test Java on XP ), and RH & SuSE too.
Posted at
11:59AM Aug 03, 2005
by damienf in General |