While this is purely speculative, it seems to me that Soeren has migrated back to Denmark and his former partner (living in CA) is shuttering the US part of the business.
Soekris’ new products seem to be aimed at the audiophile market. > On Apr 27, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> still sad to see the end of Soekris though :/ > > I'm not entirely sure it is the end of Soekris. Is is the end of the US > division but Soekris Europe seems to be doing well and is adding new > products to their lineup. I am not sure if they are starving out the US > division from new products but the situation appears to be very different. > At least from what I can see with the announcements on their home page. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Folkert > Saathoff > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 1:42 PM > To: Dan Shechter > Cc: soekris-tech > Subject: Re: [Soekris] They finally suspended operations > > > I agree, we recently got two APU2 boards to complement (not yet replace) two > net5501-70s that have been running _very robustly_ for years. so far the > APU2s are behaving reasonably well, so seems promising as a platform to > migrate to. > > the one thing the APU2 lacks is the ability to remotely issue a hard reset, > ie something like the in-band +++RESET serial command of the net5501. with > APU2, a power cycle is required in case of hangup in boot, ddb or similar. > talking to Pascal of pcengines.ch, it seems that he is philosophically > opposed to these kind of magic sequences, so some other solution for > emergency recovery is required... > > > this thread has been very useful! it's good to hear about peoples > experiences with other platforms... still sad to see the end of Soekris > though :/ > > /f > > > > > > > > > >> On 2017.04.27, at 06:48, Dan Shechter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have replaced my failing 6501 with PC Engine APU2. Very happy. >> >> Funny how the rack mounting kits cost a lot, relative to the price of the > APU its self. >> >> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Nick Gyurov <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bryan, I'm switching to PC Engines. >> >> On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 at 3:56 AM BKW Soekris <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 2017-04-26 10:11, Scott Gustafson wrote: >>> From the home page announcement: http://soekris.com/ >> >> Well, at least they've made it clear. Now I can finally give up hope >> on a new product. And I can also give up hope for some official >> contribution to the mailing list regarding the net6501 problems. And >> now I can officially start planning for the eventual replacement of my >> net6501, knowing that it will be REQUIRED to be a non-Soekris option. >> Now I need to find a rack mount server that can run completely fanless. >> Anybody have any suggestions? >> >> -Bryan >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> -- >> Regards, >> Nick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Soekris-tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
