Sun Sells a Thumper

Sun has apparently sold the first in a line of data warehousing appliances based on Solaris 10 and Greenplum's modified PostgreSQL database system and adjunct applications. The Phillippine telco, Smart Communications bought the Sun Fire X4500 system, codenamed "Thumper," to power its call center.

The new Sun appliance exemplifies the trend towards merging server, apps and underlying database. It's said to be priced well below competing offerings, coming in at about $20,000 per terabyte. For the full scoop, see Aaron Tan's article on ZDNet Asia.

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