Sun Unveils 64-bit Server Line

SumDog is one of many to let us know, PC World is reporting that Sun is expected to reveal the first few of their new 64-bit servers at their quarterly product rollout. From the article: "Formerly code-named Galaxy, the Sun Fire X2100, X4100, and X4200 servers represent the company's bid to woo customers, particularly the financial industry sector, away from rival server vendors Hewlett-Packard and Dell."

yes....

[fuelvolts]

...but does it have 64-bit drivers for my HP all-in-one printer?

Favorite line...

[Otter]

Sun used to dominate the financial industry, but lost its edge during the dot-com era, according to Singer.

"We weren't paying attention, we got distracted by all these people with pierced body parts and blue hair," he said. "We missed changes in the marketplace. It's very distracting to grow at 60 percent per quarter and very humbling to have it disappear. We're now paying attention to Wall Street again."

Re:Microsoft Windows is fully supported by Sun, to

[Anonymous Coward]

(follows link)
**head explodes**

woo customers?

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"servers represent the company's bid to woo customers, particularly the financial industry sector, away from rival server vendors Hewlett-Packard and Dell."

So these severs will be faster then most intel based processors with a lower price tag?

Didn't think so.

Re:Let's hope they run better than the W2100z WS

[hkb]

Standard Slashdot Response:

You obviously don't know how to admin Linux you fucking cluebie, go back to Windows. Oh, Solaris? Sun sucks, use Linux.

+3 Funny

Come on, give people more credit then that..

[cbreaker]

Seriously, we all know Sparc is 64-bit, has been for some time. Most of us also know that they've dabbled in the Opteron processors not very long ago, and that these new servers are probably all Opterons.

If not, maybe you shouldn't be reading Slashdot. It's too technical for you. Go read C|Net.

Re:Favorite line...

[Jherek Carnelian]

we got distracted by all these people with pierced body parts and blue hair,

What I want to know is, what the heck were they doing paying attention to a bunch of grandmothers? Most of them can't even use a VCR, much less Solaris...

"Galaxy" class systems

[t35t0r]

Trio of Sun Fire systems are first of 'Galaxy' class machines ..Its mission, to take system admins where no system admins have ever gone before.