On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 22:19 -1000, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: > A friend of mind sent me this news about a free Niagara server (in > Japanese) and asked if anyone has (or knows anyone who has) any experience: > > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathanja?entry=free_server_v2_0_honest
Wayne, I'm not sure if you know this already but Jonathan Schwartz is the current CEO (or CTO/CIO/COO whatever) of Sun Microsystems. The link you sent looks like they hire translators and is on a post time delay. His official English blog is: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan English entry of post: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=niagara_benchmarks I've been following his blog for a while. Mostly because it comes from the viewpoint of a Sun executive. And on occasion he has something to interesting to say. But yes. The offer sounds legitimate. But no, I don't know anyone who has had any experience. There are however online testimonials and they encourage that because "if you write a blog that fairly assesses the machine's performance (positively or negatively), send us a pointer, we're likely to let you keep the machine." You mentioned you were going to be at the Open Source Pizza last Tuesday but you weren't there so I didn't talk to you about what you had in mind for your OpenSuSE/OpenSolaris/OpenOffice study group. Maybe you can elaborate more on list in regards to OpenSolaris on list to see if others are interested? Having administered previously Solaris/AIX/HPUX/Digital/QNX Unixes (& Linux), I'm not really sure I understand going forward what the advantages are for OpenSolaris vs. Linux. If they are purely technical/engineering reasons, I believe the developer momentum behind Linux outweighs that. - Julian