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IBM & Sun Agreement Puts Pressure on HP

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the things-heating-up dept.

eldavojohn writes "IBM has turned to long time rival Sun in an effort to bring Solaris to its mainframes. Sun may be taking this chance to drop out of the server market while at the same time capture Solaris subscriptions via IBM sales. Either way, this certainly pressures HP in the server department."

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  1. Re:out of the server market? by lscotte · · Score: 0, Troll

    > I don't know, Sun is investing quite a bit in their new niagra processors,
    > so why would they get out of the server business?

    Because for those that can see past the marketing and know the hardware side of things, Sun doesn't have a hardware platform to stand on. They are touting the Niagra, but those in the know realize what a piece of junk it is (seriously, lots of issues with even the second generation), and the Opteron platforms don't scale above 4 socket/8 cores (you wonder why Sun is the only one selling 8 socket/16 core systems? It's because there's a technical problem there).

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