@Adam: Blades and Innovation

Adam says, "SUN has with their blades is they don't offer anything new they are just a "me too", nothing innovative."

I find it difficult to comprehend a statement like this. I have never heard of someone complaining that SUN was competitive.

The reality is that SUN offers some very unique and superior features to the competitors:

- 50% more sockets in a rack than other vendors

- 80 Gigabit chaassis connections (Dual 40 Gigabit Infiniband interconnect)

- Blade option with flash DIMM's

- Blade option with hard disks

- Blade option without disks

- Blade option with SPARC, Intel, and AMD

- Blade option supporting Solaris, Liinux, Windows

- Blade option with no backplane chassis interconnect

- Provisioning system for multiple operating systems (Solaris, Liinux, Windows)

- Passive cooling door option to increase compute density up to 70% over in-row cooling