Sun And Intel Announce Landmark Agreement
[author:zyk06 Public time:Jan 23, 2007] |
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Sun Microsystems and Intel announced a broad strategic alliance centered on Intel's endorsement of the Solaris Operating System (OS) and Sun's commitment to deliver a comprehensive family of enterprise and telecommunications servers and workstations based on Intel Xeon processors. The scope of the agreement spans Solaris, Java and NetBeans software and Intel Xeon microprocessors, as well as other Intel and Sun enterprise-class technologies. The alliance also includes joint engineering, design and marketing efforts.
As part of today's announcement, Intel is embracing Solaris as a mainstream OS and the enterprise class, mission critical UNIX(R) OS for Intel Xeon processor-based servers. Intel also endorses Sun's Solaris, Java and NetBeans products and will actively support the OpenSolaris(TM) and open Java communities from which they continue to evolve.
Sun is committed to leading on performance and energy efficiency in its server product line. After a comprehensive evaluation of industry platform solutions, Sun has decided to complement its current offerings with platforms based on Intel Architecture optimized for Solaris beginning in the first half of 2007. Sun believes Intel's model of alternating new microarchitectures with new process technologies on an annual basis will offer outstanding building blocks for Sun's customers.
Sun plans to deliver a comprehensive family of Intel-based systems with uni-, dual- and multi-processor based servers and workstations supporting Solaris, Windows and Linux. Intel and Sun will also collaborate around greater than four processor scale-up systems optimized for the Solaris OS.
As part of this alliance, Intel has signed a Solaris OEM agreement enabling Intel to distribute and support the Solaris OS to its customers as market opportunities may arise and consistent with Intel's product strategies. Intel and Sun will strongly encourage independent software vendors (ISVs) and system providers to expand their offerings for Solaris on Intel-based systems, and Intel will support Sun in its efforts to optimize applications for Solaris on Intel Xeon processor-based systems.
Intel and Sun also believe that the combination of Sun's open source Solaris and Java development environments and the Intel architecture provide a solid platform for ISVs to develop and deliver applications and web services to deliver outstanding differentiated value to enterprise customers. The Solaris platform is supported by more than 2000 ISVs on 800+ platforms that deliver the essential scaling, functionality and security capable of handling explosive network growth.
Both companies expect this alliance to expand the reach of Intel Xeon processor and Solaris OS based solutions.
Author: Mihai Alexandru
Source: http://www.playfuls.com/
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