Cobalt Ships First Microserver Products.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1998--Cobalt Microserver Inc. today announced that its Cobalt Qube The Cobalt Qube was a server appliance product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. (later purchased by Sun Microsystems) featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management. (TM) microserver products, which were introduced last month at the DEMO 98 conference, have begun shipping to customers. Cobalt develops and markets simple, low-cost Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and intranet servers. The Cobalt Qube microservers are aimed at workgroups and branch offices, Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , Web developers and educational organizations. They are simple, versatile, scalable, and offer excellent performance for workgroups at a fraction of the cost of traditional UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) and Windows(R) NT servers. "The Qube is a great product and we've had fun using it as part of Cobalt's beta development program," said Andrew Soderberg, president of Merlin Merlin, in Arthurian legend, magician, seer, and teacher at the court of King Vortigern and later at the court of King Arthur. He was a bard and culture hero in early Celtic folklore. In Arthurian legend he is famous as a magician and as the counselor of King Arthur. Media Inc., a new media production company based in Cupertino, Calif. "We use it as a development server and find that it gives us an easy way to do all of our web site development for clients who already have public web sites or those with no existing Internet service. I recommend it to clients for web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. and email because it's very cost-effective and easy to maintain, -- no network administrator is needed." About Cobalt Microserver Cobalt Microserver Inc. develops and markets simple, low-cost Internet and intranet servers. Founded in 1996 and located in Mountain View, Calif., Cobalt's microserver product family delivers versatile, scalable solutions at price points well below those of general-purpose servers. Cobalt can be contacted at 650/930-2500 or www.cobaltmicro.com. -0- Note to editors: Cobalt Qube is a trademark of Cobalt Microserver Inc.; other marks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Hamilton Communications Nancy Teater, 650/321-0252 nrt@hamilton.com |
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