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spyvspyaeon — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:22:02 -0000

lol Patou :D gwys got some :D

@ gwyneth - Yes a lot of people read your blog for sure. I do myself, even when I read too much tech stuff. I just feel so noob next to you *grins*

Re: New Class 6 Servers Are Out

Patou Dumont — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:51:01 -0000

Argh! Almost got me there. :-D

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Torley — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:42:26 -0000

[13:41] Marianne McCann: Hiro - you know, maybe this explains why Torley got a Mini the other day... it's an actual at home SL server!

Also, http://www.macminicolo.net/ ;D

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Dusan Writer — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:54:25 -0000

Does this mean my Class 7 server is obsolete?

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Thoria — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:35:47 -0000

/me notes the date...

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Apple MacKay — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:33:23 -0000

Looking at today's date, I wonder if my leg is getting pulled!
:)

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Cindy Ecksol — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:28:33 -0000

Oh, Gwyn, you REALLY don't expect tier to go down, do you? All that will happen is that LL will become more profitable :-)

Cindy

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Atlwolf — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:03:17 -0000

April Fool !!

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Troy McLuhan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:34:25 -0000

I'm very pleased to hear about these new servers and have started Thinking Different in preparation.

The cost of land in SL has always been a barrier to entry (or continued existence) for people with cool ideas but not a lot of money. I hope this change will mean I can finally build that giant chicken farm I've been dreaming about all these years.

Re: New Class 6 Servers Are Out

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:07:40 -0000

Oops!!

Well, nobody reads my blog anyway, I'm sure that LL's more concerned in pushing servers around than in strict compliance with NDAs... hopefully.

Re: New Class 6 Servers Are Out

Hiro Pendragon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:05:43 -0000

Wow, were you ALLOWED to talk about this yet, Gwyn? Involve has been under tight NDA for 4 months now about this. I mean, all of our clients have been running the Class 6s since Jan 15, but ... who gave the go ahead? I'd better call my contact. You may be in serious doo-doo!

Re: New Class 6 Servers Are Out

Brian — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:26:44 -0000

Cool - I had no idea this was getting announced already.

One of the driving factors for this decision was the ease of a 64-bit transition. Leopard is already there for non-GUI apps. It's only Cocoa-based apps that aren't fully 64-bit until Snow Leopard. The other was that the 1,000MHz memory bus in the new generation Minis is pretty unusual at this price point -- certainly for anything approaching a blade server configuration.

Newly available backplane rackmounts also eased the decision. Swapping flaky servers is as easy as pulling a Mini out of place and shoving another in. It's a lot like swapping bad drives out of a RAID chasis. There is absolutely zero cabling required.

The commodity nature of the Minis also introduces some price and service competition. If you're dealing with full service rack units, you're pretty much dealing with one of 3 hardware vendors. With the Mini, there's only one, however there are about a hundred qualified full service retailers. In a server room, service and RMAs account for a significant portion of operating cost and many Mac retailers are willing to throw these in for free to support a volume purchaser.

All in all, it's an unusual but very good move. Think Different indeed.