Sun Ultra3 Mobile Workstation
- IT TOPICS:Hardware
For the last 6 months I've been using a Sun Ultra3 Mobile Workstation as the main machine for development for Cheffy (and more recently using the T2000 for actual deployment testing).
The Ultra3 is a superb little workstation, but definitely not a laptop,
One of the key benefits of this machine is that it is completely SPARC compatible - you can move binaries from the Ultra3 and run them on a SPARC server, for example the T2000, without having to recompile or redevelop the project.
For an engineer visiting sites, this machine would be ideal as you could use the software and utilities and copy them over with ease. For a developer, it certainly lowers the normal barriers of entry to be able to build and compile applications that can be deployed straight from the laptop to your servers.
Aside from these benefits, it's just a very fast machine. I've been running MySQL, Apache, Tomcat and some large Perl applications (including of course Cheffy) and it is difficult to tell this machine apart from some of the servers I use for development and testing.
There's a much fuller review of the features and usability of this machine in the latest issue of Free Software Magazine - you can jump straight to the review, but don't ignore the rest of the issue, there's some good content this month.
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