Sumo Computer was formed on the basis that there will always be a market for a powerful computer that is both low power and in a small package. We first started out with the Kruo Box from Revolution. It was the ideal platform for computer room applications that needed a headless server. We placed a high capacity disk drive in the Kuro Box and added Gentoo Linux and sold this small and powerful computer on the internet for a few hundred dollars.

We met with limit success in the marketing of the computer, but ended up with a very happy customer base. Sumo Computer configured the headless server with the clients information so that it was simply plug and play with their network. Gentoo Linux provided an excellent  platform for the Kuro Box. With over 10,000 applications that would run on the PPC Kuro box is was a spectacular computer system.

The Kuro Box was comming up short and Sumo Computer was being bootstrapped from the proceeds of a part time consulting business.

To remedy these problems, Sumo Computer is looking for seed capital in the amount of a line of credit for 2 million dollars. 

Kuro Box Shortcommings:

• The Kuro Box was operating at 233 Mhz and with 128 Mb of memory.
• A single 10/100/1000 ethernet port.
  
• Gentoo Linux was not 100% Kuro Box ready at the time we started.
  
• Revolution had internal issues that made dealing with them difficult.
  
• Public assumption was that a monitor/keyboard/mouse we required to be called a computer.
  
• Not all of the source code was open source.
  
• The Kuro Box lacked the standard PPC U-Boot boot loader.

Improvements needed to continue:

• Faster more powerful processing capabilities.
  
• More memory for running larger applications.
  
• More network interfaces.
  
• A method for clustering the computers together to create a more powerful system.
  
• A faster and more reliable disk subsystem.
  
• A full U-Boot implementation.
  
• 100% Gentoo Linux integration.
  
• 100% Open Source.