Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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HP bribing Sun customers:

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=nwhwk&guid=%7B59F0B59E%2D926D%2D4...

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H-P seeks to steal Sun Micro's shine
Customers are offered $25,000 in incentives if they defect

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Hewlett-Packard turned up the heat against struggling Sun Microsystems on Friday by offering $25,000 worth of technology support to lure computing customers away from its Silicon Valley rival.
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"Sun's platform is at a dead end," said Marc Jourlait, H-P vice president of enterprise marketing. "Customers want to move over to standards-based platforms and know that we've been doing Linux for years."