Sun Announces New AMD-Based Product Line

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday November 17, 2003 @06:31AM from the has-got-his-hat-on dept.

Transfan76 writes "Today Sun Microsystems has officially announced an alliance with AMD. They "have formed an alliance to deliver a broad range of AMD Opteron[tm] processor-based systems, Sun also announced it plans to offer its Java Enterprise System on the AMD Opteron processor and is significantly extending the reach of its Solaris Operating System (OS) and leadership in the 64-bit space." You can read the official press release from Sun here. And the AMD release here." We previously reported rumored plans to this effect a few days back.

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Is Solaris on AMD the next to be canned? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-17 07:02 · Score: 0, Flamebait

My friend at work told me that Sun released SunOS i386 and than canned it, abandoning their customers. A year or two ago they abandoned their Solaris x86 customers. 'They' say that 'the third time is a charm', so who can say when they will abandon their Solaris on AMD customers?