Sun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD’s Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to move, according to Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner. Gardner said Sun was following through aggressively on its initiative to enter the more mainstream, industry-standard market, which has been one of the company’s successful plays in the last year.
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Sun Drops Pricing with Opteron Play
Posted by: Jay Lyman July 26, 2004 11:17 AMSun Microsystems is carrying out its promise to provide Opteron-powered products for volume markets. The Santa Clara, California-based company said its expanded Solaris x86 combined with AMD’s Opteron processor would be offered in new Sun workstations and Sun Fire V20z servers, which are priced to move, according to Yankee Group senior analyst Dana Gardner. Gardner said Sun was following through aggressively on its initiative to enter the more mainstream, industry-standard market, which has been one of the company’s successful plays in the last year.