Thank you for posting that, I omitted the link. They did indeed ditch their custom hardware: the appliances were excellent, but not really a competitive propos

Thank you for posting that, I omitted the link. They did indeed ditch their custom hardware: the appliances were excellent, but not really a competitive proposition compared to "buy a cluster of commodity hardware and if one JVM instance goes for a coffee break, treat it as any other transient failure and route requests to another host."