[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana Project seeks SPARC M3000

[Alasdair Lumsden]

Hi All,

Based on the principle of "If you don't ask, you don't get", the 
OpenIndiana project is seeking a SPARC M3000 server to be donated from 
an enterprise for use with builds.

EveryCity will happily sponsor the rackspace in their datacenter for the 
server for free, and stick it on Gigabit internet access.

OpenIndiana would share the M3000 with Illumos for doing SPARC builds to 
accelerate production of our first official SPARC release.

Why an M3000? At the moment we have access to slower SPARC equipment 
located in datacenters outside our control. In order for us to make a 
commitment to SPARC ideally we need a fast host we have guaranteed 
access to.

If so desired, OpenIndiana can list your enterprise as a commercial 
sponsor of the project in return for the equipment.

If anyone would like to discuss this, please get in touch at 
alasdairrr at gmail.com

As a project we would very much like to make OpenIndiana on SPARC a 
viable supportable alternative to Oracle Solaris 11, and your support 
can help make this happen.

Many thanks,

Alasdair

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Alasdair Lumsden
OpenIndiana Project Lead
alasdairrr at gmail.com