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Sun To Build Opteron Servers

Posted by timothy on from the getting-in-on-the-new-deal dept.

geekee writes "According to an article at CNET, Sun is planning on creating Opteron-based servers. These are expected to include 2-processor and 4-processor models running either Solaris or Linux. This move isn't surprising, given the performance and cost gaps between the Opteron and UltraSPARC processors. A move to Opteron would allow them to be more competitve in cost and focus more on what they're good at, designing systems, not processors."

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  1. Laziness or R&D by Plissken · · Score: -1, Troll

    I personally wonder, are they selling the Opteron based servers so they don't need to spend more money on R&D to make their products more appealing, or are they just plain lazy?

  2. pardon me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    GOOD AT DESIGNING OPERATING SYSTEMS? Did you ever use Solaris? It eats freaking 512MB of RAM just to bring up a login screen and it is slow and buggy as hell. I have seen admins with 10 years of Solaris experience switching over to Linux after a few hours of playing with a Linux box. Solaris is the second worst OS there is, only outperformed by UnixWare, which is simply in a class of its own (uber-crap).

    1. Re:pardon me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Solaris handles I/O much better than Linux. The machine doesn't freeze while doing large file transfers.

  3. Re:Sun is simply adapting to survive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    it depends on how you interpret these numbers

  4. UR MOM IS THROWN TOGETHER WITH OFF THE SHELF PARTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    biotch.