Intel Corp (INTC)

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At some point big SPARC64 boxes will stop
coming and Sun will either have to decide to rebadge
Fujitsu IPF boxes instead or get out of the high end
system business. If it is the former then obviously for
Sun it would be disastrous if Solaris wasn't already
running well on IPF.


I hope you're right, and you certainly appear to know lots more about the server markets then I do, but I just have these nightmarish visions of the days when the Andy Grove and Jerry Sanders pissing contestants, got their Lawyers to waste all that money, and all those years in court, and neither of them seemed to give a damn what happened to their companies as a result. I wouldn't be looking forward to a Deja Vu pissing contest, featuring different players. IMO, if Sun is going to need to do it anyway, then Intel should forget about courting Sun/Solaris, and concentrate Itanium Software development efforts elsewhere. If it is enevitable, and the customers want Solaris on Itanium, Let them tell Sun.

Win Win for intel