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Dawn of the Dead--on Sun's potential comeback (fastcompany.com)
1 point by mattculbreth on July 14, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Anybody here using Sun in their startup? They are marketing to startups now. I am looking at the Try and Buy deals now.


Just curious, but why? It seems like you pay a premium for not much in return.


Well that's a good question. Maybe I'm really asking if anyone here sees value in the premium Sun is charging.

I've priced out a couple servers that would work as our first, and they are ~ $5k vs. a similar server from Dell running $3.5k. From what I understand the Startup Essentials program has some good discounting and so maybe it brings the pricing back to parity.


I have had great success with Dell 1U & 2U PowerEdge machines running FreeBSD. I simply see no reason to pay a premium given how far I can take these Dell machines in terms of scalability.

Maybe the price equalizes with this new program. I don't know, but I doubt it will over time.




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