[cfgeeks] Oh and Gil then there's SunPCI...

[Liston Bias]

Arghhh... I've enjoyed using the SunPCI card for years.  They haven't had 
an upgrade to in a while, so it was becoming apparent it was going bye 
bye.  Will be going the virtualization route next year when I upgrade work 
desktop to have Solaris X86 and Windows on the same box, but would rather 
have sparc.  RDP graphics have not worked so well in my experience, but I 
could probably go that route also.

Cheers,
Liston


On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Kevin P. Inscoe wrote:

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> DOH! Maybe not...
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> Subject: SunPCi discontinued?
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:48:15 -0400
> From: Morty <morty+sunmanagers at frakir.org>
> To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
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> We've got some Sun Blade 100s and 150s with SunPCi cards.  We're
> looking to upgrade them to current Sun Sparc desktops and buy some
> more.  Some nasty surprises: Sun seems to have abandoned the "pizza
> box" form factor on the desktop, and more importantly, the latest
> SunPCi card, the SunPCi IIIpro, does not list the current Sun Sparc
> desktops (Ultra 25, Ultra 45) as being supported.
>
> This is bad, because the SunPCi card is how we support both Solaris
> and Windows apps without having to deal with KVMs or doing X11, VNC,
> or RDP over the network.  Without the SunPCi, we'll have to make some
> hard choices.  Said choices are unlikely to favor the vendor that
> discontinued existing product concepts that we had been relying on.
>
> Has Sun really dropped SunPCi support on modern hardware?  If so, how
> are other SunPCi customers dealing?
>
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