Rackable's datacenter in a box

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Fuel for Sun/Rackable acquisition theorists: Sun has a datacenter in a box. Rackable just announced a datacenter in a box.

Coincidence?

[Update: more at The Register on Rackable’s offering and comparisons with Sun. I’ll say this, Rackable’s solution is prettier.] 

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