Hey boys and girls - the T2000 is "freaky" !!!


Laughed so hard, milk nearly shot out my nose....

Reading through this CNet piece written by Stephen Shankland,
Bill Zeitler from IBM calls the T2000 "kind of freaky".  That is
just awesome, dude - totally tubular in a rad sort of way.



So... freaky how?




  • freaky fast?

  • freaky efficient?

  • freaky in how little power it needs?

  • freaky in its suitability for, you know, those niche applications
    like web servers, app servers, databases, ldap servers, mail servers,
    streaming video, anything needing SSL, anything Java?


Well, in my patch of the woods, these things are freakily being
deployed all over the place.  Been a lot of fun!  So what are
you waiting for?  Come on you know you are thinking it.

Posted on: May 01, 2006

Posted by: jks

Category: What they said...

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Comments:

Yeap, I read that article. I think he being the IBM Server VP and have such a view on T2000 This may be good for Sun because he doesn't take us seriously; pround and elegant take one nowhere!Much like Intel has been treated AMD. See where Intel is today in relation to opteron :)

Posted by Ghee Teo on May 01, 2006 at 10:11 AM EDT #

I kind of like the statement "I personally think they'll be a little bit more of a niche product and not something on which I would expect to see them gain a lot of market share." Yeah they're a little niche here. I see them like a workhorse that fits a lot of jobs with a great price point like the E450 did a few years ago. An FPU per core would help more, but still...I see it was a good general machine given the price. The T2000 is a *good* idea and from what little I see, it's selling. BTW...tried to do this from my Ultra 5 this morning but the math question's font was too small...and I'm not that old....

Posted by Jon Hamlin on May 01, 2006 at 06:17 PM EDT #

Now we do have a lightweight script to see if you really need the extra FP horsepower or not... http://cooltools.sunsource.net/cooltst/index.html Ahh... the E450 - now that brings back some pre-Sun life memories... the first ones I bought were through one of my unfavorite outsourcers, so they only cost us something like 3 billion dollars ;-) once you added in all the fees. The last one I had was named macguffin.. probably still running somewhere out there....

Posted by Jason on May 01, 2006 at 08:37 PM EDT #

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