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To: Buckwheat who wrote (162592)	6/28/2005 2:40:55 AM
From: dougSF30	Respond to of 275872

In truth, it seems like the designs were changed, made more aggressive, part way through development, when Fowler took over. There was an article... zdnet.co.uk What's different with the Galaxy line is that it is built on the company's first in-house designs. Fowler said the company has more ambitious plans for the Kealia technology that underpins the servers: It's going to build designs that Fowler's predecessor cancelled but that Fowler has resurrected. "The original leadership thought they were too radical. I thought they were not radical enough," Fowler said. "You'll see those in 2005." Also from around the same time: The Galaxy family of servers, based on technology acquired when Sun bought start-up Kealia a year ago, will have as many eight processor sockets. Sun will start shipping the first of those products this summer, said John Fowler, an executive in Sun's network systems group. That's later than Sun had planned. Last year, Fowler said he expected a full new family of servers based on AMD's Opteron to be released by end of June 2005. "It's taking a little longer than we had hoped, but the products will be better," Fowler said Wednesday, in an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston. Fowler's reason for the delay: Sun added some new products and refined others after hearing comments from customers about its existing servers. One change will be better management tools, he said.