Today Sun and Intel announced a new partnership. Intel is now endorsing Solaris as the mission critical UNIX platform for Intel/Xeon. Sun is going to sell a whole new line of servers and workstations using Xeon processors. They are working together to highly integrate features of the Xeon processor such as hardware virtualization and multi cores, with Solaris. They talked about running 6 and 8 Xeon processors in a single server, with up to 4 cores each!! Also, Intel's team is going to work with Sun to fully optimize the Java platform and NetBeans IDE for Intel Xeon processors.
When asked what is going to happen to the Sparc and AMD line of servers, Sun says that it is up to the customer to make the decision what to buy. Sun has a market for Sparc servers. There is a market for AMD servers. There is also a large market for Intel servers that Sun will now be able to reach.
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
