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,
Here is the URL for the server specifications
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4150/specs.xml
If you have any questions please let me know.
Regards