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To: Paul Engel who wrote (52647)	4/10/1998 8:46:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Paul, So is Fjitsu :-) Sun Solaris Moves To Fujitsu's Intel PC Servers April 10, 1998 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., Newsbytes: In a teleconference, Fujitsu, Ltd. [TOKYO:6702], became the second vendor, after NCR, to announce plans to sell and support Sun Microsystems' [NASDAQ:SUNW] Solaris OS (operating system) on Intel-based PC servers. SunSoft and Fujitsu officials also said that Oracle Corp. [NASDAQ:ORCL] will unveil intentions on Thursday to provide Oracle 8 on Solaris for Intel systems from Fujitsu. Like NCR, Fujitsu will now join the Sun Solaris System Partners Business Council, noted John McFarland, vice president and general manager for SunSoft's Solaris and Network Software Group, speaking during the teleconference for North American journalists, attended by Newsbytes on Wednesday night. Fujitsu will begin to offer Solaris on its 32-bit Intel systems in the second half of 1998, in Japan only, said Shizuo Inagaki, president of Fujitsu Software Corp., also during the teleconference. Sales of Solaris for PC servers in the US will begin with the availability of Intel's forthcoming 64-bit processor, codenamed Merced. Fujitsu-owned Amdahl will handle U.S. distribution, according to Inagaki. McFarland told reporters tonight that SunSoft's newly announced agreement with Fujitsu adds to a similar pact with NCR, announced last summer. Fujitsu, he noted, is the third largest producer of PCs in the world. "For us, this is a very strategic partner." Fujitsu, NCR, and other members of the Sun Solaris System Partners council will each make contributions to the Solaris OS, which will be shared among all members, across the Intel and Sparc platforms, according to the SunSoft executive. Contributions from NCR have already been incorporated into beta software, he added. Fujitsu will make contributions toward the "scalability, reliability, and security" of Solaris, drawn from Fujitsu's expertise in mainframe systems and data centers. Set to begin appearing in Solaris early in 1999, these contributions will be specifically related to "dumping and tracing" in the data center, the journalists were told. Over the past few years, Solaris has grown at "twice the rate of (overall) Unix business," according to McFarland. Also during the teleconference, Inagaki pointed to several reasons why Fujitsu is choosing to make Solaris available on its PC servers. "Solaris is best positioned to take advantage of the Intel architecture," remarked the Fujitsu executive. Solaris is also "very powerful (and) mission critical, (with) strong ISV (independent software developer) support," Inagaki asserted. _____________________________________________________________________ Michael

To: Paul Engel who wrote (52647)	4/10/1998 6:30:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, from the article you briught in about SGI going Wintel: ========== Later this year, SGI will start making Windows-Intel workstations based around the next-generation "Slot 2" Pentium II processor ================================================== This gives me an excuse to go to a Wescon or Compcon or Cebit, find one of these SGI W/S's, and look at the intel inside sticker on it. Maybe I'll even take a picture of it. Last holdout: Scott McNealy. Tony