Sun Kills Cobalt
News Just three years after Sun paid £1.2bn for server appliance maker Cobalt networks, the computing giant has killed off the line. On the company's Web site, the latest Cobalt appliance server, the dual-processor Raq 550, has joined the Raq4R and...
[December 31, 2003, 9:55]
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]
Cobalt: There Will Be No Apple Cube Lawsuit
News Cobalt Networks, the server appliance manufacturer acquired last year by Sun for £1.2bn, has laid to rest any lingering suspicions that it plans to sue Apple over the use of the Cube trademark. Cube Computer Corporation sued Cobalt Networks in...
[April 25, 2001, 18:00]
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. Sun Cobalt is preparing a major addition to its line of Linux...
[May 3, 2002, 16:48]
Sun Hands Cobalt An Open-source Lifeline
News Late last month, Sun laid the Cobalt experiment to rest as it relegated the remaining Cobalt appliance -- the Raq550 -- to an end-of-life product. Although the Cobalt servers are based on the Linux operating system, which is open source anyway, it...
[January 2, 2004, 10:55]
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]
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]
US Report: Raw Iron Alerts Sceptics
News Cobalt Microserver Inc.s Cobalt Qube package, for example, provides a bevy of workgroup services. Installing the appliance will be as simple as plugging it into the wall and the network. Also, Network Appliance Inc.has been selling single-function...
[December 21, 1998, 9:42]
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]
Sun Jumps To Linux 5.0
News Although the LX50 will ship in a pizza box-shaped 1U high rack case similar to the Cobalt Raq server appliance, it will be more powerful, said Tindall, with up to two 1.4GHz Pentium III processors, and support for up to 6GB of SDRAM.
[August 13, 2002, 10:35]
Sun Takes On Microsoft And IBM With Linux Servers
News Zander emphasised that, though the servers are developed from the specialised Linux systems sold by Sun's Cobalt subsidiary, they will not replace those servers: "We will still market Linux on Cobalt as an appliance," he said.
[February 7, 2002, 17:34]
'Thin' Windows 2000 Debuts
News The server appliance market is one area where Windows lags behind rival platforms -- Sun subsidiary Cobalt, which builds thin servers based on the Linux operating system, commands more than 90 precent of the mid-range server appliance market...
[March 1, 2001, 12:55]
Java Start-up Sues Sun Over Software Patents
News DeWitt also founded Cobalt Networks, a server start-up Sun acquired in 2000 for $2bn (£1.14bn) - a move that ultimately proved financially damaging. Azul's Compute Appliance is used to provide a central computing resource to run Java programs.
[March 16, 2006, 9:50]
