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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (45148)	9/10/2001 8:51:02 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"...now there's itanium, but where's the software to run it on? Who has the O/S to do it?" PALO ALTO, CA., -- February 29, 2000 -- In response to market demand for its recently announced free Solaris[tm] licensing programs and its OEMs reconfirming interest, Sun Microsystems today reaffirmed its commitment to provide versions of its highly reliable, available and scalable Solaris Operating Environment for systems using Intel microprocessors. Sun will continue to market the dotcom-grade Solaris Operating Environment supporting Intel's current IA-32 platform-based processors and will extend support for the emerging IA-64 platform-based offerings, Itanium and beyond. Sun brings its .com-grade operating environment to companies that choose Intel processors and want the reliability, availability and scalability that only Solaris software provides. Sun currently bundles Oracle8i Enterprise Database and Apache Web Server with Solaris, and will continue to do so with Solaris on Itanium, giving dot-com applications an extremely powerful transaction platform. "Sun and Intel have OEM customers who have made a significant investment in Solaris as their operating environment for the IA-64 architecture. Sun is fully committed to working with Intel to ensure the success of our joint customers," said Anil Gadre, Sun's Solaris Software vice president and general manager. "The market is speaking clearly and strongly for Solaris for Intel. Demand for our free Solaris on Intel program is high and our Solaris OEMs have reaffirmed to us their commitment to offer the Solaris Operating Environment on their IA-64-based systems." full: sun.com Others: redhat.com extremetech.com microsoft.com