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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Sonki who wrote (63336)10/3/2005 3:28:11 PM
From: E_K_S  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Hi Sonki - Here is what the Galaxy Servers look like:
news.com.com

One source said Sun hopes the new product line could lead to $1 billion in new revenue each year for the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company.

pcworld.com
From the article:"...The new servers were designed by Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. He left Sun in 1995, returning in February 2004 when Sun purchased his server design company Kealia. At that time Bechtolsheim and his team started work on Galaxy. Sun had originally promised to bring Bechtolsheim's servers to market in the first half of this year.

"When we first bought Kealia, our intention was to rush products out to market," Singer said. "Instead, we spent a year camped out in New York, London, and Hong Kong to find out what it would take for us to displace Dell and HP's industry servers." User concerns Sun discovered centered not only around price/performance but also on servers' efficiency and footprints as organizations found themselves running out of space in their data centers, he added..."
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If Google is buying, I wonder if they plan to take advantage of Sun's trade-in deal which expires March 2006. If so, SUNW provides a significant trade-up discount and probably makes little on the hardware deal. They may ink a deal for service and maintenance. Also, if Google migrates to the SOLARIS OS for their server farms, then this could be a big deal. It means OS machine licenses (including annual software upgrade fees) and a big win for SUNW and their unix OS.

EKS
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