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The Blackbox Lives! Or at Least is Not Dead
Data Center Knowledge (Aug 11 2010)
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One of the many unanswered questions surrounding Oracle’s acquisition of of Sun Microsystems was the fate of the Sun “Blackbox” data center container business. In the fall of 2006, Sun became the first server vendor to introduce a shipping container packed with servers, and has invested significant time and effort on evangelizing the container concept. When Oracle closed its purchase of Sun, it made no comment on the fate of the Blackbox, since rebranded to the more boring Sun MD S20. What we heard at the time was that Oracle wasn’t killing the container program, but wasn’t promoting it, either.
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