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Sun Announces New AMD-Based Product Line

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Sun also announces 0.5-1m desktop win in China by ChrisRijk · · Score: 4, Informative
    Register article
    Along with the Opteron systems, Sun announced a big win for its Java Desktop System. The Chinese government will roll out 500,000 to one million PCs with the software over the next year.

    "This, I believe makes us the number one Linux player on the planet," McNealy said. "The goal is to reach the Chinese government's goal of 500 million alternative desktops, and you can decide what alternative means."

  2. Re:AMD SPARC? by southpolesammy · · Score: 5, Informative

    SPARC is an open specification. Nothing's stopping them from doing it now, except perhaps ROI.

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  3. Reported by Slashdot? by szquirrel · · Score: 4, Informative

    We previously reported rumored plans to this effect a few days back.

    Where "previously reported" means "we linked to the article on news.com".

    Credit where credit is due?

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