[geeks] SunFire 280r 'rescue'

[vance at neurotica.com]

*Sridhar's head explodes*

Peace...  Sridhar

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote:

> Hi Lads
>
> A small provincial NZ company who specialises in vending machine technology
> recently got bought out by Coca Cola. At the time of the aquisition they
> were developing a largish backend application on Solaris/Oracle.
>
> Coca Cola said "No! Windows NT is the platform of choice. Get rid of all
> that Sun rubbish and put in some _real_ servers." [1]
>
> Where is this leading...?
>
> I just scored a complete and 'as-new' 8 month old SunFire 280r server with
> a single 900MHz/8MB USIII, 2GB of RAM, 36GB FCAL disk, redundant PSU, DVD,
> rack mounting kit, dual channel Ultra SCSI controller, and transferrable
> Solaris license. All this for 1,742USD!!!!! (plus 12.5% sales tax). This is
> what - 15% of the Sun list price?
>
> Yes I suck. You may may now begin to hate me :-P
>
> Regards,
>
> Gavin
>
>
> [1] Well maybe I'm embellishing a little :-)
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