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Sure, ~20 years ago Sun Microsystems used to sell some "Ultra Enterprise" servers which offered nice reliability features like redundant power supplies and a ba
by adrianmonk 8y ago
Sure, ~20 years ago Sun Microsystems used to sell some "Ultra Enterprise" servers which offered nice reliability features like redundant power supplies and a backplane and slot setup where you could install several CPU/memory boards or I/O boards.
In comparison to some of their other hardware, these servers were more suited to organizations with more demanding needs like minimizing downtime or having lots of compute power or configuration flexibility.
But of course people quickly realized that a key characteristic of actual enterprise computing is large budgets, so it almost immediately turned into a game of labeling things with the word "enterprise" in hopes of vacuuming up as much of that money as possible.