Sun hands Cobalt an open-source lifeline
News The release means that all the custom user interface and back-end code for the Qube 3 and RaQ 550 server appliances is now available under a BSD-style licence. Also, the custom BIOS for all x86-based RaQ/Qube products -- which, among other things...
[January 2, 2004, 10:55]
Sun kills Cobalt
News On the company's Web site, the latest Cobalt appliance server, the dual-processor Raq 550, has joined the Raq4R and other Cobalt devices in the end-of-life section. But it was the launched of the Raq -- a 1U high rack-mounted unit -- that made...
[December 31, 2003, 9:55]
Next-gen Cobalt Raq server 'due this summer'
News Sun Cobalt is planning an update to the popular Raq line of server appliances, due to launch this summer. The Cobalt Raq 550 is likely to support dual processors, said the source. According to a source close to the company, the server, which is...
[February 13, 2002, 9:55]
IBM working on 'Sun-killer' appliance
News IBM is working on a killer appliance which, if it goes into production, will be targeted at the market currently dominated by Sun Cobalt Raq servers -- pizza box-shaped servers that are popular with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) because of...
[February 13, 2002, 10:12]
Irish start-up picks up where Sun left off
News After Sun bought appliance server maker Cobalt Networks in the autumn of 2000, the computing giant quietly dropped the StaqWare software that let ISPs and businesses build high-availability clusters of Cobalt Raq server appliances.
[February 13, 2002, 10:53]
IBM hopes to toast Sun with new appliance
News The xSeries Hosting Appliances server, due to ship on 16 April, is a high-density, preloaded Web-hosting appliance aimed at those ISPs who currently buy Cobalt Raq servers from Sun Microsystems. For its part, Sun is expected to revamp the Cobalt...
[April 12, 2002, 14:25]
Sun jumps to Linux 5.0
News Simon Tindall, volume products business manager for Sun in the UK, said the version number denoted the fact that Sun's Cobalt subsidiary has offered four previous versions of Linux on its Raq server appliances.
[August 13, 2002, 10:35]
Sun Cobalt prepares May appliance launch
News Cobalt marketing manager Pierre Reynes refuted suggestions that the IBM server appliance with Sphera software would be easier to set up for e-business applications than a Cobalt Raq. The Raq 4 is now a fourth generation server appliance," he said.
[May 3, 2002, 16:48]
Sun under the microscope with earnings
News Sun plans to announce two models of Cobalt products, the RaQ XTR and the Cache RaQ 4, a source familiar with the event said. The low-end Cobalt systems will cost less than $1,000, a first for Sun, the source said.
[January 16, 2001, 9:32]
CERT warns on Sun server flaw
News A remotely exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Sun Cobalt RaQ 4 Server Appliances.may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges," the CERT advisory said. Users of Sun's RaQ 4 Server appliance have been...
[December 13, 2002, 9:50]
