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Sun to Merge UltraSPARC with Fujitsu's SPARC64?

Posted by michael on from the dying-gasp dept.

Waldmeister writes "The Register has a story from a japanese source, that Sun and Fujitsu are planning to combine their Unix server businesses. Even if Sun doesn't comment on this, they acknowledge that Scott McNealy met Fujitsu's CEO this week. If this will happen, Fujitsu will get the bigger chunk of manufacturing and engineering. With the PrimePower systems outperforming Sun's SunFire systems for some time now, this sounds reasonable, too. And it gives Sun the chance to more resources to extend their Linux and x86 business." There's also a Reuters story.

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  1. Ouch to the American Company by Davak · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Looks like Texas Instruments will be losing some business after the merger:
    I think that is ridiculous," said HSBC's Myers, adding that Sun had recently confirmed its commitment to TI technology and would be unlikely to do anything to hurt their 15-year relationship.
  2. Re:Huddling together for warmth? by Davak · · Score: 1, Redundant

    1. Together they are going to develop "cutting edge" CPUs...
    2. Fujitsu is going to mass produce them...
    3. Forget !@#!!@# Profit -- Just hoping for survival?

  3. They do have a Linux stratergy.. by CooCooCaChoo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Linux on the desktop and Solaris SPARC/X86 on the server. Thats plain and simple. Is it really that hard for you to understand?

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