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To: dougSF30 who wrote (53912)	4/24/2003 12:58:24 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

My German isn't very good, but I don't see where it says they're dropping Intel. Edit: Here's what babelfish does with it: babelfish.altavista.com It seems ambiguous to me. "Decided against" could mean for some new system, or could be more broad. JMHO. Charles Tutt (SM)

To: dougSF30 who wrote (53912)	4/24/2003 9:46:42 AM
From: David Kelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun decides for chip from Dresden The manufacturer of high speed computers, Sun Microsystems, wants to build on Tuesday the introduced new processor Opteron of AMD into its computers. As the restaurant week reports, Sun boss Scott McNealy thereby decided against the competition products of Intel. So far Sun for economical entrance servers uses also chips of market leader Intel. Besides Sun wants to make also own software available like the operating system Solaris and the InterNet programming language Java for the new chip. With the Opteron hopes to be able to become independent McNealy of Intel. The new chip is the first AMD processor with modern 64-Bit-Technologie and exclusively in the AMD work Dresden is manufactured. Translated using the built in feature of Opera 7.10, highlight,right-click, choose translate. The work is done by Lycos and software called Systran. OTOH, here is a new article in The Register. The article purportedly from an interview has McNealy saying there were no Opteron servers coming and they will continue to use Intel. 212.100.234.54 64-bit Solaris for Opteron coming, McNealy tells Reg