[rescue] Total corporate madness (

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Tue Aug 5 12:46:33 CDT 2003


It's not so expensive anymore.  I've started seeing Sun A5000's for under
$500 lately at liquidators.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> On Monday 04 August 2003 18:57, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > > Besides, as far as I am aware, the next thing to come about is serial
> > > scsi.
> > > This might actually be interesting.
> >
> >    Read about FC-AL, aka FibreChannel.  That's essentially what it is.
> > It works, it's SCREAMING fast, it's standardized, it's supported, and
> > it's readily available.
>
> And screaming expensive? What makes the price difference? The fact they stuff
> it in 10k$ blade2000's or that it uses superior technology or more expensive
> materials?
>
> --
> Frank Van Damme    http://www.openstandaarden.be
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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