As the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

A few weeks ago I applied for Sun’s Niagra try-before-you-buy program hoping to get a chance to benchmark how a Django stack behaves on one of those bad boys.

Unfortunatly, it appears the hype is better than the follow-through. I applied as an individual, and after about two weeks got a call from a guy at Sun wanting a credit card to pre-authorize for the entire value of the server. I don’t have anywhere near $8,000 in credit – does anybody?

So Sun’s giving away T2000 servers for free.

Well sort of, anyway: you get to try ’em for 60 days, and according to Jonathan Schwartz if you post benchmarks of the thing’s performance, the sales department “might” let you keep the thing.

Sounds too good to be true, eh? Well, I’m certainly not going to pass up the chance to fiddle with an quad-core, $8,000 server for a few months, so I filled out the form. If I actually get one, I’ll run some benchmarks of the Django stack and see how it performs.