Is Sun copying Apple's design?

[Marky_Mark]

Sun Microsystems just released its new server T1000/2000.
Is it me or the degingn looks an awful lot to tyhe X Serve?

http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000/

It's a server, for chrissakes. They all look like that. And the holes mean nothin'. Sun have purple ones, IBM have black ones. HP have blue and beige ones. It's simply function over form. Air being sucked through a machine by a couple of fans moves past a grate better than a solid piece of metal. Simple fact is that processors run hotter for longer when they're being thrashed by a fluid dynamics simulation or a financial modelling package, so the server designers try to encourage the maximum airflow across the innards as possible.

 

[toothpaste]

no matter how much they try, APPLE DID IT FIRST!!!!

Ok we know you are a fanboy. While Apple does make nice products, the enterprise uses servers made by Sun not Apple. American Express uses Sun Servers to keep track of information, MasterCard uses Sun. What did Apple do first?

 

[jhu]

It's a server, for chrissakes. They all look like that. And the holes mean nothin'. Sun have purple ones, IBM have black ones. HP have blue and beige ones. It's simply function over form. Air being sucked through a machine by a couple of fans moves past a grate better than a solid piece of metal. Simple fact is that processors run hotter for longer when they're being thrashed by a fluid dynamics simulation or a financial modelling package, so the server designers try to encourage the maximum airflow across the innards as possible.

obviously, if it even has vague similarities to what apple makes then said company must of copied apple. i mean, other computers have hard drives too so they must have copied that design element from apple.

 

[clayj]

Why do so many people continue to insist that if any company releases a product that has even a vague resemblance to an Apple product, that said company must have copied Apple?

There are only so many ways you can practically design certain objects.