Sun Microsystem's Special Dell Offer

[Buck]

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/x64tradeup/index.html

Trade in any qualified Dell server and get a 20% trade-up allowance off the list price on eligible new Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers with 3-year support services. That's a potential savings of up to $1,900 on new entry level Sun servers that have 1.5 times the performance of Xeon-based Dell servers.* Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers also offer up to 56% savings in power and cooling costs per year over comparable Dell servers.**

 

[Mercutio]

Wish they had a similar deal for their opteron workstations...

 

[fb]

It seems like Sun's marketing team is on the offensive these days.

Link

 

[Buck]

"Benchmark Studies Prove that Dell Sucks" :rofl:
Thanks for the link fb.

 

[ddrueding]

Their servers look nice and the prices are competitive. I wonder how Server 2003 would run on them?

 

[P5-133XL]

Sun claims that Windows 2003 Server (Standard and Enterprise) are supported.

I agree that they have potential. Unfortunately they are not offered in anything other than rack-mount: Me annoyed with this limitation.

 

[Mercutio]

I've found that rackmount hardware sits on a counter-top just fine.

I understand that, for the workstations, the 2100wz and the like, the basic platform is a Tyan motherboard with a highly customized BIOS, but the servers throw away all reference designs in favor of something built entirely in-house by Sun. I'd love to play with 'em regardless.

 

[ddrueding]

the servers throw away all reference designs in favor of something built entirely in-house by Sun. I'd love to play with 'em regardless.

This is what I've heard as well, and why I typically shy away from prebuilt servers, but Sun has a heck of a hardware reputation. The fact that they now make something that I'm interested in playing with makes it even better. I used to have some UltraSpac 20s lying around, but I really didn't appreciate them to their capacity.

 

[Buck]

Another marketing stab from Sun: http://www.sun.com/emrkt/itanic/