Sun unveils its Linux servers with Intel inside
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I guess the following announcement could bode well for MIGR. What seemed impossible yesterday , i.e. SUN porting group licensing 32connect to port UNIX applications to Linux (Solaris represents by far the biggest installed base), may one day become a reality.
Pizza power
By INQUIRER staff: Monday 12 August 2002, 09:58
SUN IS TO SHOW Linux servers running Intel chips
at the Linuxworld Expo that begins today in San
Francisco.
The company is more concerned with competing with
IBM and Microsoft than Intel, according to the Wall
Street Journal. Jonathan Schwartz Sun's executive
vice president of software said, "IBM is the air war
and Microsoft is the ground war," the paper says.
Sun's LX50 servers will use Pentium III chips running
at 1.4GHz. The servers will cost $2,796 for a
single-processor system with 512MB of memory and
$5300 for a dual-processor model sporting 2GB of
memory. The products were announced earlier in the
year but today's the day the company bites the Intel
bullet.
Sun is not averse to using AMD chips, executives
have made clear.
The systems run a variant of Red Hat's Linux, and
will also be able to run a version of Sun's Solaris,
tweaked to run on an Intel platform. Sun says it is
reacting to customer demand for servers running the
open source operating system
The company is positioning itself up against the
pizza-box-style Linux servers recently launched by
IBM.
Chief executive officer, Scott McNealy, will be
delivering one of the first keynote speeches at
LinuxWorld show today. µ
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