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color. The green LED in the front was Bill Scott's idea. The 2700 was not a development version number but came from the atomic number of
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The Qube 2700 was the first product released by Cobalt Networks in 1998. Mark Orr, one of the Cobalt Networks' CEOs, came up with the
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The next product was called the Qube 2800 before being sold. But, released in 2000, was eventually called the Qube 2, leaving the
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in the form of the Gateway Micro Server. The casing featured on these units was black instead of cobalt blue.
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A fourth Qube model was in development but was never released. However, several models were released in the
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operating system and a proprietary GUI for server management. The original Qube systems were equipped with
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CPU at either 300 MHz or 450 MHz and was the last product in the Qube line.
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closed down in Jan 2009 and his PKGs for the CobaltRAQ/Clones/BlueQuartz servers are
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operating system has been ported to both the Cobalt Qube and RaQ.
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product line after the Cobalt Qube was discontinued.
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arrangement, the Qube 2 units were also produced by
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computer
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web servers
Cobalt Networks
Sun Microsystems
Red Hat Linux
RM5230
RM5231
AMD K6-2
NetBSD

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cobalt
cobalt
RM5230
RM5231
OEM
Gateway
AMD K6-2
data center
Cobalt RaQ
"NetBSD/cobalt"
"Cobalt Qube Microserver"
"Qube 4 – CobaltFAQs"
the original
"Sun Microsystems Server Appliances: End of Life Products"
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CobaltFAQs wiki

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