Not that I enjoy ads but suddenly sun feels like newegg. I suppose part of the deal is to get the tech blogosphere excited about their discounting their servers -- or getting rid of extra inventory before a revamping of the product line. If sun were apple we'd have swarms of excited bloggers looking at the faintest hint of product updates. Then again if sun were apple its stock would be much hotter.

This should prove a worthy Oracle 10g combination. We plan to use it for development purposes. The Sun server is a nice little 1U (specs here), connected via an HBA to 10.5TB of raw storage from Apple. I'll post a quick review shortly. For the real thing we use a Sun x4600, a great machine to run Oracle on Linux. Don MacAskill of SmugMug beat me to it and published an interesting review of these 2200M2.