[LUAU] Free Niagara Server (60-day trial)

[Julian Yap]

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