[ILUG] Free SUN T2000 for sixty days - except for the Irish

[Justin Mason]

Colm MacCarthaigh writes:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:59:52AM -0000, Eamon O'Tuathail wrote:
> > I see from www.sun.com <http://www.sun.com/>  that SUN is offering a Sun
> > Fire T2000 (with the amazing 32 concurrent threaded Niagara chips) for sixty
> > days for free.
> 
> See my comment on;
>   http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=niagara_benchmarks#comments
> for a complaint :) And then yesterday I got a nice mail from Sun telling
> me that I'd have a Niagara box for testing within 2 weeks. Thanks also
> to Paul Jakma for pointing me in the right directions.

hooray!

FWIW, I was very impressed recently with Sun's recent software practices,
especially with the open sourcing and open development styles around
OpenSolaris.   Some great functionality appearing, especially around
zone-based virtualization and zfs.

--j.