LinuxAid.com.cn Site Latest Information: Sun Recently announced that the new series of large-piece servers will be started next year. The eye-catching is that these servers will use AMD's Opteron chip and Linux operating system.
According to Sun's Market Manager, Market Manager, the new blade system will be adventive in the first half of next year, follow the AdvancedTCA Telecom equipment specification.
In addition, Sun also intends to introduce blade server series of UltrasParc processors and Solaris operating systems, the price is similar to the Opteron system. But Sun does not disclose specific price information.
According to Butler introduction, Sun Company has cooperated for many years, and it is very understandable to customers' needs. He said that the current market is very strong in the market's demand for SPARC and Opteron blade processors. He also said that so far, Sun has not determined what brand of Linux operating system is used in the Opteron system. However, Novell's SUSE Linux and the operation grade Linux of Montavista Software are considered.
Sun is currently selling an AMD chip-based blade processor, mainly Sun Fire B100X. The latter uses the Mobile Athlon XP 1800 processor, formally launched the time in December 2003.
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