The World Just Changed

By now you've read the press release, and you know that Sun and Intel are joining forces to drive Solaris, the NetBeans development environment, Java, and the Intel Xeon platform. You'll see ads that look like this in a few days: The short form of the relationship is this - Intel has agreed to endorse and OEM from Sun the open source Solaris OS. Just stop there for a second. If you're an industry watcher, that's a pretty big change for the both of us. Intel has annointed Solaris as The Mission Critical Unix for Intel/Xeon. They're also endorsing, and we'll jointly be optimizing, the NetBeans and Java platforms, and working with us to fuel the communities from which they spawn. Again, if you're an insider, that's a big shift in the market - welcome to the community, Intel! On the Sun side, we're agreeing to pair up our respective systems engineering teams to build a line of Xeon based systems - servers and workstations. These will augment our SPARC and AMD platforms, both of which have been growing double digits over the past year. We're broadening our offerings with Intel's Xeon, and certainly hoping to accelerate our overall growth - into our customers, and into Intel's. And not just in OS's or computers (don't forget, our view is that storage is coming our way, too). Jointly, we'll build the market, work with ISV's and partners, and help support key customers - an...

Date: January, 22 2007
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/but_we_did_not_hug

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