Lanac - Re: "SUN backed out of its deal with INTC about the MERCED chip"
Does this article confirm that Sun backed out of the Merced/Solaris program support?
By the way - you seem to be living in some kind of mortal fear of Intel's Merced?
Just why is that?
Paul
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Wednesday April 8, 7:37 pm Eastern Time
Sun , Fujitsu in software pact
SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd. will announce an agreement Thursday in Tokyo to offer Sun's Solaris operating system on Fujitsu servers designed around Intel Corp. (INTC - news) processor technology, including its future
Merced chip.
The companies said they will work together to promote, enhance and support Solaris, which is Sun's version of the UNIX operating system. Servers are systems that run and manage computers linked together in networks.
Sun said the first customer shipments of systems running Solaris from Fujitsu are expected in the second half of 1998 and will focus on the Japanese and Asian markets.
Amdahl Corp., the mainframe maker, which is now owned by Fujitsu, will also support and sell Solaris software on its systems running Intel's Merced chip.
The first enhancements of Solaris by Fujitsu are expected to be available from Sun in the first half of 1999. Fujitsu plans to enhance the reliability and serviceability, particularly for high-end servers.
Last August, Sun signed a similar deal with NCR Corp. to offer Solaris with NCR servers for big corporate users.
Solaris is the leading operating system in the fragmented UNIX operating market, but it is seeing increased competition from Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT - news) Windows NT. In the workstation market, workstations running NT are growing faster than UNIX- based systems.
''Right now NT is emerging, but it's a long way from proving itself in the (corporate) enterprise space,'' said John McFarlane, vice president and general manager of SunSoft.
According to market researcher International Data Corp., Sun's Solaris is a leading UNIX operating system for combined desktop and server platforms, with 28 percent of total UNIX unit shipments, based on preliminary 1997 data.
Fujitsu, the third largest computer company in the world, said it will target companies doing more Internet applications and so-called ''mission critical'' applications with servers running Solaris. Mission critical refers to applications that are vital to a company's business, such as airline reservations and banking transactions.
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