Solaris takes on Linux with Opteron
Tuesday, 10 February 2004 18:49 EST
There will be a lot of screaming going on during Sun Microsystems Inc.'s quarterly barrage of product announcements Monday, but -- in a change of pace -- it won't be done by Sun CEO Scott McNealy. Instead, McNealy will let the "screaming fast" speed of Sun's new hot-swappable servers running on AMD Opteron processors and the pre-installed release of two Sun Java Enterprise Systems (JES) speak for themselves.
The product fest is the fifth in Sun's new series of quarterly announcements. In the hardware arena, Sun touted super benchmarks for its new midrange and high-end systems with chip multi-threading technology, its first Sun Fire system powered by the 64-bit-compatible Opteron and new industry-standard blades.
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