Sun, IBM set sights on wireless market
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
October 30, 2000, 1:40 p.m. PT
update SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Sun Microsystems has formed a new business unit and a $100 million venture fund for the wireless market, the company announced Monday, but IBM is matching Sun's plans almost step for step.
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But selling servers for wireless computing infrastructure may not be as profitable as IBM and Sun hope. For one thing, they face competition from Hewlett-Packard, which has offered its own wireless hardware, software and services for a year. And Compaq Computer, though trailing Sun, HP and IBM in Unix server sales, has long been a strong seller of telecommunications servers for handling ordinary voice telecommunications.
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