[cobalt-security] Server Appliance Market Was More Marketing Hype

["Schachter, Abe" <ans@xxxxxxxx>]

While this topic is not security related it has appeared a number of time
over the past couple of weeks.  Let's face it folks, the market for server
appliances has not materiallized into what the manufacturers and pundits had
thought.  Most server appliance manufacturers are drastically revamping
their product offerings or discontinuing them altogether.  Server appliances
were a great idea but they never made much money.  Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard
and Dell all tried it and have all backed out of the server appliance market
- the manufactuirers have either dropped out sompletely, terminated their
product lines or have moved into appliance software for generic server
hardware.  I like my RaQ4i boxes but they're going to have to be replaced.

For a recent news item Network Fusion magazine on this subject take a look
here: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1031serverapps.html

Sorry for taking up the bandwidth.


Abe Schachter
EDS  / I-ASSURE
DOD CERT

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then you don't understand the problems and you don't
understand the technology." 
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