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ML going nuts

As Merrill Lynch points out, Sun believes that its upcoming class of Opteron servers will be far superior to any kit from the likes of HP, Dell or IBM.

"We believe that Sun may publish benchmarks that show its servers (both pizza boxes and blades) running a commodity microprocessor and OS at 2-3X the speed of current x86 systems thanks to the non-commodity architecture built around the parts," the analyst firm wrote in the report. "Running Solaris rather than Red Hat would probably provide an additional performance boost. Sun's value added would be in the design of the board, the I/O, and raw performance. If 3X performance is achieved, then a data center could save significantly on A/C, electricity, and real estate."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/15/sun_needs_linuxbuy/page2.html

I wonder if they ever heard the term "benchmarketing", and how that´s done.

In reality, if SUN doesn´t start fully supporting and selling 64bit Linux and, most importantly, Windows with their Opteron systems, they won´t go anywhere in the volume server market, all benchmarketing aside. Since SUN is the only OEM fully behind Opteron, I really hope they make the right decisions in this respect. They have a unique opportunity there.