Re:Sunblade line is very poor (Score 1)

I agree a SunBlade 100 is blindingly fast, but on the other hand, I have had a Sunblade 100 on my desk now for 8 months it has 512MB, withdual frame buffer (Expert3D Lite, plus default 24bit card), an A1000 (Ultra SCSI hardware based raid array), a SunPCI card (750Mhz celeron), and it acts as a workgroup server and development box for me, supporting half a dozen G4 Macs (netatalk), some NT boxes (samba),
I have following software running at the same time as part of our development tools, Oracle 8i, OpenLDAP, 4 different instances of Zope, Apples Webobjects, Thoughtweb (Java based knowledge engine), Apache, iPlanet Web Server, plus I use quite a few other bit's and pieces on the desktop like gimp, OpenOffice, idle, etc.... I am running CDE and KDE at the same time (each on their own monitor, I often switch to Gnome from KDE) and run 5 different web browsers (for testing). The box has only been rebooted once or twice in that entire time (new hardware added, patches and powerfailures, it has never crashed or been rebooted to fix a problem). Conversely the WIn2K and the OS9/OSX boxes in the office are typically rebooted at least once a day, to fix a problem.

Yep it's not fast but it does a hell a lot more than anything else in the office, more reliably and keeps working under load.