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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.

3 of 246 comments (clear)

  1. Wonderful news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Air conditioning manufacturers specialising in cooling server rooms will be delighted with Sun's switch...

  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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    Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
  3. Union of the underdogs? by Shutter_BC · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I've been an AMD fan for quite a while, as anyone who reads articles at Anandtech tends to become. This has been more or less already stated, but... where is this going to lead without a strong media presence or public interest? I wonder how Sun and AMD plan to educate non-techies and convince them that they're cool.

    I wish the both of them the best of luck, and one of these days, may good engineering prevail. I hope.