Sun Cobalt

The Cobalt Qube was a server product line developed by Cobalt Networks, Inc. which was later purchased by Sun Microsystems featuring a modified Red Hat Linux operating system with a proprietary GUI for server management. more...

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Original Qube systems were equipped with MIPS CPUs but later models used AMD K6-2 chips.

The Qube 2700 was the first product released by Cobalt Networks. Mark Orr, one of the Cobalt Networks CEO's, came with the cool cobalt color. The green color of LED in the front was Bill Scott's idea. The 2700 (or 27 to be precise) number, the first Qube released, is not a development version number, but comes from the atomic number of cobalt. The next product was called Qube 2800 before being sold, but it was eventually called Qube 2, leaving the number 2800 to designate the type number of the system. Both the Qube 2700 and the Qube 2 used MIPS CPUs.

Under an OEM arrangement, Qube 2 units were also produced by Gateway, in the form of the Gateway Micro Server. These units feature a black casing instead of the Cobalt blue.

The Qube 3 used a 450 MHz AMD K6-2 CPU and was the final product in the Qube line.

A fourth Qube model was in development but was never released. However, several models were released in the data center-friendly Cobalt RaQ product line after the Cobalt Qube was discontinued.

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