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Sun May Use Opteron Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-molten-core-is-pure-silicon dept.

Runnin_Rob writes "CNET Nets.com is reporting that Sun is likely (not definite, but likely) to start using AMD's Opteron in the near future. The article also discusses how Linux is pushing for greater acceptability of Solaris x86 because 'All of the sudden it is OK to (put) something other than Windows.'"

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  1. Good News by AlgUSF · · Score: 0, Troll

    I like Sun servers and Solaris, and I like AMD... :-) I hope sun is able to make some more money by using AMD's chips. Anything Sun/AMD develops has to be better that WinTel....

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  2. April Fools is Over by LordMyren · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously, why would Sun ever release such a brute as this? Sure, its fast as hell, but I think Java's all the evidence we need to prove that Sun doesnt give two rats on a stick about performance. They're one of those "100% uptime" "we'd never expect programmers to garbage collect" and damn the torpedos folks. What do they give about the hopefully soon to be fastest processor this side of Itanium (Although Itanium's only absolute claim to fame is its price, shazam).

    Why would they care about another 10% performance margin anyways?

    Has CNet forgotten that Sun happens to be making their own processors? UltraSparc IIIi is what, here, almost here, something of the sort. And what better way to say our processors rule than by using someone elses, no? Then again, they did just confess that Java is wholy inadequate for many of they're projects, so ah, sun will be sun.

    But they'd better rethink they're processors if they're profit marigns are better for a 3rd party chip than they're own, network externalities aside.

    Myren