Sun Ships New Intel-based Blade Servers

Yesterday, Sun Microsystems announced that it is aiming to attract a larger share of the blade server market with its first blades based on chips from Intel. The two companies announced in January a relationship to jointly engineer, design and market Intel's chips and Sun's Solaris operating system--after a five year hiatus. During those five years, the only x86 architecture processors Sun used were from Advanced Micro Devices. This move really opens up the market for Sun and will allow the vendor to reach customers who prefer the Intel processor platform, analysts said. Sun said the Sun Blade X6250 (starting list price: $3,695) is a two-socket server with dual-core Intel Xeon processors in each socket. Sun also announced new blade servers based on AMD technology, its own UltraSparc chip and an entirely new blade server chassis.

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