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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems

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To: alydar who wrote (63420)11/1/2005 10:54:33 AM
From: E_K_S   of 64865
 
IBM & Sunw move one more step closer
Sun's Solaris now an option for IBM blades

news.com.com

Sun Microsystems and IBM have come to a pragmatic accommodation, under which Sun's Solaris 10 operating system will be a supported option for IBM's BladeCenter servers.

IBM won't sell Solaris or support for the operating system to customers, IBM said. Anyone interested will have to purchase the software and support from Sun.

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This may be the first step in a much longer term relationship. Sun has said its new blade servers will debut in early 2006, but the company declined to comment on the possibility of using IBM's blades. "We are developing a new generation of blade products based on an innovative architecture that is designed to take blades to the mainstream. Beyond that, we cannot disclose further details of any unannounced products," spokeswoman Liza Curran said......

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