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To: Paul Engel who wrote (91751)11/5/1999 9:55:00 AM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Paul,

Intel will be using Solaris as the base OS for a new and decidedly more upscale "appliance" early next year. The
Intel Web-caching appliance was announced last week at ISPCON, is aimed at small to mid-range ISPs, and is
effectively an Inktomi Traffic Server box which was co-developed by the two companies.


That is very interesting, an appliance running Solaris.

And Intel's initial policy statements on server appliances made it crystal clear that it intended to sell hardware
that didn't have complex and expensive per seat licensing fees attached to it. This ruled Microsoft out at the
time, and probably still does.



I wonder what Solaris licenses cost. Also, is there a "Solaris-light" (never heard of one), something like a Windows CE, scaled down for smaller machines/memory. Anyone? Very interesting Inktomi-Intel idea.

Tony
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