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Awhile ago, a palindromic friend of mine told me about a deal from Sun that is explained here.  Basically, if I agreed to release my product on solaris within nine months, I could get a free server.  It says that the product can’t currently be available on solaris, and since holaservers isn’t really launched or available for real on solaris, I figured I was fine.  I signed up for the partner program and was (I think) automatically approved.  Once approved for the partner program (not the server) I saw requirements about fulltime and revenue, neither of which I am too flush with.  I kind of gave up.

A few days later I got a call from a Sun employee welcoming me to the partner program.  I explained my hopes for the server, and disappointment in the requirements and he said to apply anyway.  It took a couple months, but I did.  I had to update a url, and send an email (maybe two) about my business plan and the like.  I figured the requirements would quickly come back to haunt me, but instead I got an email containing

Dear Sun Partner,

Congratulations! Your request for the Port Now! Hardware Offering has been approved. Please allow approximately 4-12 weeks for delivery of your system.

It was awesome.  I sent in some paperwork the next day and am anxiously waiting.

Of course, if you look at the specs for the x4150, you may notice a few variable things, like

• One or two Intel® Xeon® Processors . . .
• 16 DIMM slots . . .
• Up to eight SAS disk drives . . .

Not related, but I did just see “Dual redundant, hot -swappable power supply” which is pretty awesome.  I am just really curious to know what I am going to actually get.  A two proc box with a total of eight cores, a ton of ram and eight SAS drives would just rock!  An empty shell or a box with no ram, no drives and four cores would also rock, just not quite as much.

To help sooth my curiosity, I emailed Sun support and also called them.  In response to my call, today I got (and let me say, I feel I fully explained my question) an email which contained

Hello Earl,

Regards

Tags: solaris sun

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