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Sun Considers Opteron

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the workstations-on-the-cheap(er) dept.

Sanjay writes "Official from Sun spokesman. Sun is considering using AMD's Opteron chip in a server it expects to deliver to the market shortly. Intead of fighting Win of Wintel (like Redhat is doing), Sun can choose to fight both with Linux AMD's servers and also fight with HP/IBM as Itanium is anyway a non starter. Sun can rise again! "

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  1. Re:The Sun is Setting by cactopus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It never ceases to amaze me how ill-informed people are. Sun has been battered heavily in the stock market, but they aren't "drying" up. There is no way PC architectures will replace "real computers"...they just aren't made to do that kind of job properly. If you're going clock for clock on silly single-user apps, maybe but when are you going to find a partitioned 512 processor PC (in one box) that heals itself and scales as well as Starfire. x86 is junk pure and simple. Opterons are being considered by Sun in the same way as Intel procs made their way into Sun's product list in the form of Cobalt. Sun isn't replacing Sparc with Opteron... that would be utterly retarded and Sun isn' retarded like HP is (read scrapping Tandem, PA-RISC, and Alpha for an unproven architecture that they don't control). Check out the specs on the USIV. Opteron is all about migrating customers off of 32 bit machines onto the Solaris platform. It is a step up to Sparc. Sparc based systems have been 64 bit since Solaris 7 and the Ultra 1 140. That's roughly 1995 or so.