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Posted in Industry News on Dec 5th, 2007
Does Solaris 10 x86 work? Is it just hype? Is anyone using it? We get asked these questions a lot at Egenera. Solaris x86 is here to stay and adoption seems to be growing. The combination of bulletproof Solaris and commodity-based hardware components with mainframe class software is just too attractive to ignore. Like many [...]
Posted in Blade Servers on Jun 26th, 2007
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System has been out for a couple weeks and what little dust there was has settled. Actually, I haven’t seen too much out there in the form of analysis beyond the usual news pieces (have you?). Perhaps that’s a signal that - again - the industry is taking a “wait [...]
Posted in Industry News on Jan 23rd, 2007
Wow! Intel and Sun have finally decided to play nice together. After years of bickering, these two have announced a joint partnership where Sun will utilize Xeon chips and Intel will support Solaris 10. My how times have changed.
I suppose this is good for the industry…good for the customer…adds more choice in the market, which [...]