[UFO Chicago] Re: Solaris 10?

[Fawad Halim]

Brian, SME Server (http://www.contribs.org/) does mail, samba and 
firewall. The Cobalt codebase is being maintained under the name 
BlueQuartz (http://bluequartz.org/).

-fawad

Brian Sobolak wrote:

>Ian Bicking said:
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>>Larry Garfield wrote:
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>>>Nate Riffe wrote:
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>>>>>>Let's make one.  I'm only half-kidding.
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>>>>>Complete with hardware, or just a software distribution?  I'm be
>>>>>surprised if someone hadn't already made the latter.
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>>>>Sure let's do hardware, I could probably prototype a mini-ITX based
>>>>black box system for under $1000.
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>Do you have an example that you could point to?
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>brian
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