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Hardware was great, but no linux/zfs support meant we didn’t stick with it.
A couple of years later we had standardised on supermicros with a similar density and ran linux on them.
Sun lost a fair amount of money from us (7 figures) by choosing not to embrace linux.
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Hardware was great, but no linux/zfs support meant we didn’t stick with it.
A couple of years later we had standardised on supermicros with a similar density and ran linux on them.
Sun lost a fair amount of money from us (7 figures) by choosing not to embrace linux.