Last summer I had chance to play with a SUN X4200 via the Try&Buy program. I was already familiar with command line interface BIOS from SUN, but that Java LOM (light out management) was just amazing. First time in my life (post-twenties) that I did not sweat while plugging a monitor to physically manage a computer: thanks to VGA in the browser.

We recently bought a SUN X2100. Low power consumption, cheap, commodity component and last but not least a SUN LOM, I like.

So we're in! The box, us and 2184 other cabinets. It took us 3 minutes to unwrap the packages, 2 minutes to add the harddrives, 2 to wire it. We're ready to mount debian-40r0-i386-netinst.iso over the network. First oups from Mac OS X / Firefox , second oups from Firefox/Parallels/Windows xp, then third oups from Parallels/Windows xp/Internet Explorer. Strike. Erk, Java RVNC is now ActiveX RVNC.

Nice interview Phipps but, what's going on at SUN?