Comment by tverbeure
1 day ago
I worked for a company that bought one of these. It was delivered, lifted through the window of the server room with a crane and worked fine.
A few days later, our admin noticed over the weekend that he couldn’t remote log in. He checked it out and… the machine was gone. Stolen.
Somebody within Sun must have tipped off where these things were delivered and rented a crane to undeliver them.
Isn’t it more likely it was someone within the company you worked for?
They would have access to site-specific info like how easy it is to get access to that server room to open the windows.
The old saying is “opportunity makes the thief.” Somebody at Sun has much less visibility into the opportunity.
I was told that it had happened before with a delivery at a different company.
Hmmm... I wondered why the official E10K demo machine in the lobby of Sun's HQ back then had been enclosed in glass. It also might very well have just been a mockup, I suppose.
Where do you fence such a thing? That is more than stealing a car. Do you take it to a SPARC Chop Shop and strip it for parts to sell on eBay?
Did they recover this monstrous thing or have any witnesses/leads on who just rocked up with an unauthorized crane to your machine room?
That is sort of a crown-jewels level heist. They pulled it off more than once??
The RAM alone cost a fortune. But I agree, it would make more sense to break into the machine and just extract the RAMs.