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Lighting a fire under Solaris
April 24, 2006
Two significant upgrades are coming to Solaris this year, but Linux remains a fearsome rival.
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Intel reclaims spot in Sun servers
January 22, 2007
With the move, Sun becomes the last of the four tier-one server sellers to rely jointly on x86 processors from Intel and AMD.Photos: Sun, Intel team up
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Schwartz ends first year at Sun with quarterly profit
April 24, 2007
The company reports net income of $67 million, but misses its revenue goal for the quarter because of server sales slowdown.
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Sun to set Solaris free, after a fashion
November 15, 2004
Operating system to come at no charge for servers with x86 processors. But the bug fixes will cost you.
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Sun's next goal: A Linux ecosystem
February 8, 2006
A top exec says Sun is "dead serious" about an open-source push for its Sparc chips. Critics say it's trying to save an endangered species.
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Linux powers unusual multicore machine
August 11, 2006
Start-up uses 16-core MIPS processor originally designed for networking gear to take a crack at Linux server market.
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AMD gains, Intel fights back on supercomputer list
November 13, 2006
Some joy for both chipmakers in the latest Top500 supercomputer list, which rates high-performance computing systems.
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Year in review: The race to dual-core
December 26, 2005
AMD and Intel raced to bring dual-core x86 chips to PCs and mainstream servers.
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SGI's Unix variant fading into history
September 8, 2006
Silicon Graphics to stop selling computers using MIPS chips and Irix operating system at end of 2006.
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