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info:about [2014/06/21 16:36]
101.164.104.241 [Commercial interaction during the development of BlueQuartz]
info:about [2015/03/02 05:09]
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 ==== Sun Cobalt ==== ==== Sun Cobalt ====
-After Sun purchased Cobalt Networks Inc. for two billion dollars (( press release: [[http://​www.pressetext.com/pte.mc?​pte=000919053|Sun purchase of Cobalt networks ]])), development of the former cobalt Networks server products almost came to a complete standstill. ​+After Sun purchased Cobalt Networks Inc. for two billion dollars (( Sun: [[https://​web.archive.org/​web/​20070222051020/​http://www.sun.com/smi/​Press/​sunflash/​2000-09/​sunflash.20000919.2.xml|Sun purchase of Cobalt networks ]])), development of the former cobalt Networks server products almost came to a complete standstill. ​
  
-Despite statistics (( Netcraft: [[http://​news.netcraft.com/​archives/​2004/​06/​24/​cobalt_shows_gains_after_source_is_opened.html|Cobalt Shows Gains After Source is Opened]] )) that indicate over 3 million hostnames were hosted on cobalt servers in August 2002, Sun announced end of sale of cobalt RAQ and Qube in 2003 (( theregister:. [[http:// www.theregister.co.uk/​2003/​12/​18/​sun_drives_the_final_nail/​|Sun drives the final nail in Cobalt'​s coffin]] ))+Despite statistics (( Netcraft: [[http://​news.netcraft.com/​archives/​2004/​06/​24/​cobalt_shows_gains_after_source_is_opened.html|Cobalt Shows Gains After Source is Opened]] )) that indicate over 3 million hostnames were hosted on cobalt servers in August 2002, Sun announced end of sale of cobalt RAQ and Qube in 2003 (( TheRegister:. [[http:// www.theregister.co.uk/​2003/​12/​18/​sun_drives_the_final_nail/​|Sun drives the final nail in Cobalt'​s coffin]] ))
  
  
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 ==== Commercial interaction during the development of BlueQuartz ==== ==== Commercial interaction during the development of BlueQuartz ====
-In mid-2005 began the project of Project Blue Quartz (Hisao Shibuya) as the lead developer at Turbolinux, Inc. - a Japanese Linux distributor. There they developed on the basis of the published source code for the Sun RaQ550 and from the sources of the Blue Quartz Turbolinux Appliance Server 2.0, also called TLAS. TLAS 2.0 was released in March 2006 (( Turbolinux, Inc.:[[Http://​www.turbolinux.com/​cgi-bin/​newsrelease/​index.cgi?​date2=20060222131514&​mode=syosai|press release publication of TLAS 2.0]] ))+In mid-2005 began the project of Project Blue Quartz (Hisao Shibuya) as the lead developer at Turbolinux, Inc. - a Japanese Linux distributor. There they developed on the basis of the published source code for the Sun RaQ550 and from the sources of the Blue Quartz Turbolinux Appliance Server 2.0, also called TLAS. TLAS 2.0 was released in March 2006 (( Turbolinux, Inc: [[Http://​www.turbolinux.com/​cgi-bin/​newsrelease/​index.cgi?​date2=20060222131514&​mode=syosai|press release publication of TLAS 2.0]] ))
  
 Just as BlueQuartz had accelerated the development of TLAS, also an information flow in the reverse direction took place. Improvements to the commercial TLAS also found in the source code of Blue Quartz collection. This eventually drew a conflict of interest from, because the available free BlueQuartz was also fully developed and offered a similar functionality as the about 950 U.S. dollar TLAS 2.0 (( Turbolinux, Inc: [[Http://​www.turbolinux.com| Product page of TLAS]] )) Just as BlueQuartz had accelerated the development of TLAS, also an information flow in the reverse direction took place. Improvements to the commercial TLAS also found in the source code of Blue Quartz collection. This eventually drew a conflict of interest from, because the available free BlueQuartz was also fully developed and offered a similar functionality as the about 950 U.S. dollar TLAS 2.0 (( Turbolinux, Inc: [[Http://​www.turbolinux.com| Product page of TLAS]] ))
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 After the release of the source code of the Qube 3 and the RaQ550 efforts were made from different companies and groups to build a similar solution based on this code. Not all were successful. After the release of the source code of the Qube 3 and the RaQ550 efforts were made from different companies and groups to build a similar solution based on this code. Not all were successful.
 ==== Active ==== ==== Active ====
-  * BlueOnyx ​development ​of BlueQuartz ​+  * BlueOnyx, successor ​of BlueQuartz ​and the RaQ550
   * Aventurine {e} Linux virtualization solution based on BlueQuartz. ​   * Aventurine {e} Linux virtualization solution based on BlueQuartz. ​
 +==== Inactive/​Discontinued ====
 +  * BlueQuartz
 +  * Renamed argon TLAS 2.0 pre-installed on Hardware. ​
 +  * Efinity F-560 RaQ to the FreeBSD base. 
 +  * RaQDevil RaQ to the FreeBSD base.
   * Strongbolt Linux BlueQuartz + CentOS distribution for installation on original Sun Cobalt hardware. ​   * Strongbolt Linux BlueQuartz + CentOS distribution for installation on original Sun Cobalt hardware. ​
   * Turbolinux Appliance Server 2.0 RaQ on Turbo Linux. ​   * Turbolinux Appliance Server 2.0 RaQ on Turbo Linux. ​
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   * ClassCat Cute Server Appliance / ClassCat, Inc. Japanese, based on the RaQ550 code.    * ClassCat Cute Server Appliance / ClassCat, Inc. Japanese, based on the RaQ550 code. 
   * [[NetBSD]] on Cobalt servers, English, completely independent of the Linux project.   * [[NetBSD]] on Cobalt servers, English, completely independent of the Linux project.
-==== Submitted ==== 
-  * Renamed argon TLAS 2.0 pre-installed on Hardware. ​ 
-  * Efinity F-560 RaQ to the FreeBSD base.  
-  * RaQDevil RaQ to the FreeBSD base. 
 ===== Weblinks ===== ===== Weblinks =====
   * [http://​www.bluequartz.org/​ Bluequartz-Website] (englisch)   * [http://​www.bluequartz.org/​ Bluequartz-Website] (englisch)
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