> TECHNOLOGY ALERT > from The Wall Street Journal. > > Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007 > > Sun and Intel have been negotiating an agreement > under which Sun would buy > Intel chips for use in server systems. Such a deal > would be a blow to AMD, > currently Sun's exclusive supplier for chips based on > the popular x86 > design used in most PCs and servers, and signal > renewed competitiveness > for Intel's chips. > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116942865146783283.htm > l?mod=djemalert > > Regards, > > Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: 972.379.2133 Fax: 972.379.2134 > Timezone: US CDT > enSolaris.Org Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member - > Apr 2005 > OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member > - Feb 2006 > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] >
Intel also agrees to endorse Solaris. Intel has a sizable contingent working on Linux compatibility. It should be expected that some of them will be switched to Solaris (in comparison, we still yet to hear ANYTHING about any work, or any promise therefor, on porting the proprietary ATI drivers to Solaris--I am royally pissed). Intel and SUN didn't see eye to eye, ostensibly b/c the latter refused to port Solaris to Itanium (which imho turned out to be one of the smartest decisions in recent computing history). It's probably too idiotic to talk about "SoTel", but if Intel could help sell a few BlackBoxes & accelerate the acceptance of Solaris desktops, all should be forgiven and forgotten. (If SUN's engineers & management can shed its image of unmitigated arrogance, why can't Intel?) OTHO, at the very least, any move that may keep AMD honest is a good move. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
