Sun Microsystems?

[Rob Wultsch]

Gary Nichols wrote:
> On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 08:38 PM, Victor Odhner wrote:
> 
>> A Sun sysadmin and E10k specialist tells me the price is
>> about right.  I forgot how many mil he said it was originally
>> worth, but it's apparently not being sold by Sun Microsystems.
>> Sun won't touch it, and what good is a high-end Sun mainframe
>> without support from Sun?
> 
> 
> Cool - glad to have some verification on the market price.   That same 
> config I believe sold for $3~4MM.  I brand new E15k *starts* at $1.2MM 
> right now.  Yikes.
> 
> I'm not sure they are correct on support though.  Sun speaks the 
> universal language called "CASH".  If you buy E-series gear, you just 
> call up your Sun rep, they send out a tech to power the beast up, write 
> down some serials, and then you get a large bill in the mail for 
> platinum care.   I think it's not IF the support is there... but IF you 
> have the wallet to stand behind it.
> 
> That sure is a nice machine.  *sigh*
> 
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What sort of OS does that run... Somehow I do not think Solaris 9.