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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: QwikSand who wrote (27848)	2/16/2000 2:25:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 64865

So... what are you buying tomorrow? <g> -JCJ

To: QwikSand who wrote (27848)	2/16/2000 4:47:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

This reads like the battle of the wet noodles. Notice the Sun "spokesman" annointed to deny that Sun is being half-hearted about their Itanic port. What do you do when you want to convince the press you're whole-hearted about your Itanic port? Why, you send a no-name guy, whose title you never give, to disagree with Intel's insult, of course. That shouldn't leave any lingering doubts! The Intel guy, on the other hand, "doesn't see the momentum". Huh? SUNW announced Itanic deals with major OEM's two years ago. It all makes sense. On the other hand, I've always wondered what Solaris x86 was really all about. It's ten years of some of clever tactic that had nothing to do with making money for SUNW. What it was supposed to do, I don't exactly know. The same goes for Solaris on Itanic. --QS Intel, Sun in rift over Intel's Itanium chip PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb 15 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC), the world's largest computer chip maker and Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:SUNW), a developer of workstations, network servers and software, are in a rift over Sun's commitment to Intel's forthcoming Itanium chip. Earlier on Tuesday, the San Jose Mercury News reported that the two Silicon Valley companies are involved in a quiet dispute over Sun's commitment to a new version of its Solaris operating system that runs on Intel's new Itanium processor, which is expected to be launched in the second half of 2000. "We don't see the momentum in terms of support," Paul Otellini, an Intel executive vice president and general manager of Intel's architecture business group, said at a press briefing, when asked about the Mercury News report. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun is one of several companies developing versions of their operating systems to run on Intel's new 64-bit processor, called Itanium. Other companies include Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), and several companies working on a 64-bit version of Linux in an effort called the Trillian Group. The Itanium chip is expected to be initially targeted to high performance servers running Web sites, conducting transactions and other corporate server applications. The chips will also be targeted to the engineering workstation market, all of which are Sun's key target markets for its own line of servers and workstations that run its Sparc processor and Solaris. Solaris is Sun's version of the Unix operating system. "They are just giving it a half-hearted effort," said Ron Curry, director of marketing for Intel's microprocessor products group. "They are not out there driving the ISVs (independent software developers), they are not out there promoting Solaris on IA-64 (Intel's new architecture)." A Sun Microsystems spokesman said he does not agree with Intel. "I would disagree with the comments that we are not committed to the program," said David Harrah, a Sun spokesman. "That is entirely untrue." He also note that Solaris was one of the first operating systems to boot up on the first test systems that ran the first Itanium chips last August. "We are pushing ahead on the whole thing." Harrah also noted that many software developers are downloading Solaris on Intel from Sun's Web site, since the company made the source code available to developers. "There are a lot of people out there taking it, looking at it, kicking it around." Copyright 2000, Reuters News Service