“On December 24, Sun Microsystems released the source code for
the software that runs its RaQ Web and e-mail server. Why not? Sun
won’t be using it any more. The RaQ was a Linux box, and the last
of the Cobalt line that Sun bought in 2000. Earlier last year, it
opened the source code for the Cobalt Qube server.“Sun gave the end-of-life alert to Cobalt users in Q3 2003. The
last order date for its last Cobalt product was November 20. The
Mountain View, Calif.-based company hoped that Cobalt would bolster
its Linux offerings while rounding out the product line with
lower-priced servers.“Instead, Sun will look to its alliance with low-cost chipmaker
AMD to provide competitive x86-based servers in its Sun Fire
line…”
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