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Sun Microsystems Hints at the Future: 8 Socket Opteron Servers

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=517
"Sun Microsystems tells us what the company has planned in the x64 market, then slashed prices on all its server products

DailyTech recently had the opportunity to sit down with Pradeep Parmar, the Product Line Marketing Manager for the Network Systems Group to discuss Sun's plans for the expanding x64 market.

Sun has drawn a bit of attention to itself lately with the anti-Dell advertisements, and just recently Sun launched its Get off the 'Itanic' ( http://www.sun.com/emrkt/itanic/ )initiative. The company believes that Itanium users are being left "high-and-dry" by Hewlett-Packard; to help aid consumers, Sun is offering a Sun Fire line of products -- the Sun Fire X2100, X4100 and X4200 Servers..."


The unnamed Sun "Galaxy" server features 8 AMD Opteron sockets, 32 DIMM slots and 4 disc drives