Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

Anyone want a good laugh? Here's what Sun, the great white
hope of droids everywhere, did last quarter in x86 sales:

http://news.com.com/Sun+ekes+out+profit%2C+but+revenue+slide+returns/2100-1010_3-5535538.html?tag=ne...

"Sun still is only getting its feet wet in the x86 market, and Linux has been more popular than Solaris there for Sun customers, according to Gartner statistics highlighted by Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi in a Thursday report. The company shipped 13,002 servers with Intel's Xeon processor in the first nine months of 2004, of which 58 percent used Linux. For Opteron servers, Sun shipped 10,566, of which 73 percent used Linux. For x86 servers overall, 65 percent shipped with Linux."

Sun badmouths Intel and hypes Opteron at every opportunity
and will even give away Opteron servers to move its software
and still it ends up shipping more Xeon gear than Opteron.