Yesterday, I signed up for Sun’s try-and-buy program for one of their SunFire T2000’s. I was impressed with the fact that I received a response within an hour. I wasn’t so impressed that it was a quote to purchase the T2000 I’d spec’d.
Today, Jonathan Schwartz posted on his weblog at Sun about how Sun’s going to give away servers for writing a good, fair review of one of their servers. It doesn’t have to be positive, just fair.
Being someone who’d write full time, given the chance, I’m anxious to get the try-and-buy server in. However, this part of me doubts I’ll ever see that T2000. The terms and conditions preclude benchmarking the server while I “try” it.
Jonathan? What about those of us who are small businesses (read: 2 people), trying to get off the ground, that may barely have the budget for such a server? Does that mean we won’t get a chance to write about these servers unless we buy one first? I’ll admit the likelihood of our purchasing an $8000 server is a 50-50 chance, due to the sheer cost and the inability to see the performance of it first hand.