Sun Microsystems bets big on Solaris 10 x86 : Tue, 16 Nov 2004

Sun Microsystems, in a bid to capture a chunk of the Intel x86 server market, has released Solaris 10 x86. As the Register acticle mentions, this is a big gamble on Sun's part, due to their traditional reliance on their RISC business and enterprise userbase. But since that sector is shrinking, they took the hint and went for it.

Scott McNealy has wavered around on this a bunch - first they had x86 Solaris and then they pulled it and then they brought it back. Of course, back when the bean counters notice a huge server market to be had. Tough part is that ol' Scott will find that this particular market has a large amount of Linux adopters running the x86 servers. You know, people who remember what Sun did to support SCO and other stuff that pissed everyone off in general. So to Sun, I say good luck with that - I hope you get everything you deserve. --CG   Source: http://www.uhacc.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi

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