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Sun Announces New AMD-Based Product Line
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.
I've been an AMD fan for a while, too.
But the problem with AMD and Sun is they would love to be the next Intel and Microsoft, complete with vendor lock-in, anti-competitive actions, and the ability to leverage a monopoly to force their users to conform to the way they want to offer their products/prices.
AMD64, for example, is not any cheaper than Intel's top of the line. And just look at how Sun has acted recently with respect to SCO and their own customers and future markets.
These companies just don't get it and I don't think my supporting them with help them understand anytime soon. The more power and money they get and more they want. They're greedy. And I don't think they really care about their technology.
I wish them luck, but I fear if they get lucky us consumers will be in the same mess we currently have with Intel and Microsoft.
But at least we have a choice.