> I have a Sun Blade 100 at work.  It's a relatively nice box.  It's all
> USB based, which is very strange, since you would never expect Solaris
> to support USB very well, but it does a good job.  I was amazed when I
> got a Logitech cordless USB Keyboard/Mouse combo working on it without
> having to even change any configuration.  It also takes PC133 RAM, so
> Sun can no longer rape you for the cost of proprietary memory.


I've heard much good things about the Blade 100's, actually, and was
considering procuring one at some point before I realized I didn't have
much use for it at the time.   I think the cheaper stuff is probably the
smartest move they've made in a while.   E10k's are nice and fun to work
on, but who can actually afford them? :)

The x86 box was a former employer who did *not* believe in OSS, and wanted
to replace all our Linux boxen with x86.  As far as I know, to this day,
Linux is still in use, where they haven't upgraded to some stupidly
high-calibur sparc box.