It's hard for me to imagine that Sun would go from a proprietary chip and OS to being a Intel/Linux box maufacturer .. leaving behind it's entire legacy.
If they do this, they're just another OEM in a sea of OEMs.
Perhaps these will simply replace the intel chips in the Cobalt rack server divisions products? That seems more likely.
I agree. They probably want to sell server blades like HP and Compaq. Cheap. Reasonably good profit margin. But the field is pretty crowded. You have to wonder about this strategy...
12 posted on 05/10/2002 5:13:47 PM PDT by Bush2000
There is one other possibility; as I pointed out above only semi-facetiously, this represents Sun's first foray into production NUMA architecture.
SGI has already been planning an Itanium-based ccNUMA product for their Origin line; it's always possible that Sun wants to leave themselves an out if they conclude that SPARC SMP is ultimately a dead end on the very high end.
14 posted on 05/10/2002 5:20:21 PM PDT by B Knotts