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Sun plans Solaris subscription pricing

April 1, 2004 The new price model, intended to help the software maker compete against Red Hat's Linux operating system, is expected to be in place by the end of April. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Red Hat Inc., Sun Solaris 10, subscription, pricing, Linux, Sun UltraSPARC, Unix, IBM Corp., AMD Opteron, server, operating system

Sun plans server with AMD's Opteron

November 7, 2003 Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy is expected to announce his company's plans to use the Opteron--a significant endorsement for the chip. TAGS: AMD Opteron, AMD, Sun Microsystems Inc., endorsement, 32-bit CPU, 64-bit, Scott McNealy, 32-bit, Sun Solaris, Jonathan Schwartz, Intel x86, Intel Itanium, Intel Xeon, Intel Celeron, server software, Intel Pentium

Lighting a fire under Solaris

April 24, 2006 Two significant upgrades are coming to Solaris this year, but Linux remains a fearsome rival. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel x86, Linux, x86 processor, OpenSolaris, Sun Sparc, x86 server, AMD Opteron, IBM Corp., operating system, AMD, server, open source

Sun releases four-Opteron servers

July 26, 2004 Four-processor SunFire V40z is latest addition to what is likely to be a large family of Opteron servers from Sun. TAGS: AMD Opteron, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD, Sun Solaris, x86 server, Intel x86, Intel Xeon, server, workstation, Intel, memory, HP, IBM Corp.

Sun to release Solaris for AMD's Opteron

October 10, 2003 Sun Microsystems' version of Unix will become the third mainstream operating system to take advantage of Advanced Micro Device's 64-bit Opteron chip, Sun software chief Jonathan Schwartz says. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, AMD Opteron, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., 64-bit, profit margin, AMD, Intel Itanium, Sun Java Enterprise System, 32-bit, Intel x86, Intel Xeon, AMD Athlon, sale, Unix, Intel

HP to adopt AMD's Opteron in servers

January 26, 2004 Hewlett-Packard plans to come out with servers that contain Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, another significant win for AMD. TAGS: AMD Opteron, Intel Itanium, AMD, Martin Reynolds, 64-bit, server company, HP, server, 32-bit, Sun Solaris, Intel, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, California, IBM Corp., operating system

HP unveils four-Opteron server

April 19, 2004 Hewlett-Packard begins selling a four-Opteron server, its second model to use the Advanced Micro Devices processor, and brings the chip into its high-performance technical computing line. TAGS: Intel x86, 64-bit, AMD Opteron, Sun Microsystems Inc., promotion, AMD, Sun Solaris, Intel Xeon, x86 server, VMware, high-performance, HP, x86 processor, subscription, extension, copy

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. TAGS: Sun Sparc, BSD, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, ecosystem, Linux, AMD, x86 processor, Jonathan Schwartz, AMD Opteron, software company, IBM Corp., open source, president, operating system

Sun to turn computing power into pork bellies?

February 3, 2005 Sun and partner plan electronic exchange where companies could buy or sell processing power as if it were a traditional commodity. TAGS: commodity, Sun Microsystems Inc., utility computing, Sun Solaris, computing, AMD Opteron, IBM Corp., bank

Sun: We've turned over a new leaf

September 21, 2004 The server giant failed to deliver what customers asked for, execs tell a confab crowd. But that's all changed, they promise. TAGS: Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, AMD, x86 server, Scott McNealy, COO, Red Hat Inc., Intel Xeon, Linux, AMD Opteron, server, event, Intel, IBM Corp., operating system

New virtualization option coming to Sun servers

October 17, 2006 Logical Domains mean multiple independent copies of Solaris will run on the same Niagara server. TAGS: Sun Solaris, Xen, Sun Microsystems Inc., container, virtualization, Sun Solaris 10, VMWare ESX, VMWare ESX Server, VMware, Sun Server, T1, Sun UltraSPARC, x86 server, AMD Opteron, server, AMD

AMD chips, Linux line up for Sun blades

December 3, 2003 Sun Microsystems begins selling its first blade server that can run Linux, a move that tightens the company's ties with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices. TAGS: blade, blade server, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD, Sun Blade, AMD Opteron, server market, Intel x86, Sun Solaris, Intel Xeon, Linux, AMD Athlon, server, IBM Corp., Intel, HP

SuSE wins partial BMC support

October 30, 2003 BMC Software touts its support for SuSE Linux at the LinuxWorld Frankfurt trade show--but the support doesn't span SuSE's entire product line. TAGS: BMC Software Inc., SuSE, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, Frankfurt, LinuxWorld, enterprise server, trade show, Sun Solaris, AMD Opteron, Linux, support, AMD, IBM Corp., server, operating system

Sun signs second Linux partnership

July 31, 2003 Sun Microsystems signs a deal to incorporate SuSE's version of the Linux operating system in its servers, the company's second step in moving beyond its own version of Linux. TAGS: SuSE, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Linux, Linux, SCO Group Inc., Red Hat Inc., SuSE Linux, Java, Unix, AMD Opteron, Sun Solaris, IBM Corp., Intel Xeon, software company, server

Sun begins pay-as-you-go supercomputing

September 21, 2004 For $1 per hour--per processor--customers can rent data-crunching power. Sun also has new servers on tap. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., supercomputing, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun UltraSPARC, AMD, storage system, pricing, AMD Opteron, Sun Solaris, event, IBM Corp., HP, server

Red Hat exec takes Sun to task on open source

September 24, 2004 Michael Tiemann criticizes software rival Sun for its support of patents and for keeping Java proprietary. TAGS: Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., software patent, SCO Group Inc., Jonathan Schwartz, OpenOffice, open source, OpenOffice.org, open-source community, open-source software, community, Sun Solaris, exec, AMD Opteron, Java, Linux
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