[UFO Chicago] Re: Solaris 10?

[Brian Sobolak]

Ian Bicking said:
> Larry Garfield wrote:
>> Nate Riffe wrote:
>>
>>>>> Let's make one.  I'm only half-kidding.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Complete with hardware, or just a software distribution?  I'm be
>>>> surprised if someone hadn't already made the latter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure let's do hardware, I could probably prototype a mini-ITX based
>>> black box system for under $1000.
>>
>>
>> I think you'd have to cut that in half to get any real market, if that's
>> where you're going.  But still, let's see if the software's been done
>> already.
>
> Hasn't it been done a whole bunch of times?  I've installed firewalls
> where I could check a box and they'd also be samba boxes, and even
> better ones probably had another checkbox for Apache and so on.  It's a
> whole market, and there's lots of players (at least those few times when
> I've paid attention to that sort of thing).  And maybe Sun just didn't
> feel they could win big in a market with so many players; maybe they
> were wrong, maybe they just weren't willing to pursue something without
> large profit potential, or maybe they just lack imagination.  But it's
> not like Cobalt's demise left an unfilled void or anything.
>

Do you have an example that you could point to?

brian


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