We got some new and shiny hardware this week at work:

sunfire one It’s a SunFire v890 server.

It’s kind of like pulling the bow off a new sports car… Sunfire two

I’m really surprised at how Linux-like the new Solaris is. It comes with apache and samba and all kinds of OSS pre-loaded and configured.

we’re laying out he ERP software and databases on there and putting it through it paces before a full test and user switchover.

SunFire three