Maybe Cray needs the extra cash for sales channel incentives
to move Opteron gear like Sun apparently decided it needs:
Maybe..... Gee....., not to even mention, the crap the AMD fans dumped on intel in the past, for "Giving Away Itanium systems". No worries though, I'm SURE the have some excuse..... ummm I mean "explanation" as to why in Sun's case....... "This Is Different".
Sun has started the Solaris Edge Elite program for its numerous channel partners. The new scheme offers free Opteron servers to partners that can move certain amounts of gear and free training."