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Ballmer and Gates are quitters, says Sun boss
News Sun has traditionally aimed its high-end servers running on Solaris and its UltraSPARC III processors at the telecoms and Internet industries, but has recently seen this market shrink considerably. Sun's controversial chief executive Scott McNealy...
[August 1, 2003, 11:15]
Itanium's friends get together to push adoption
News In response to the troubles, Intel redefined Itanium as a chip chiefly intended for high-end multiprocessor servers, models that today usually use RISC (reduced instruction set computing) processors such as IBM's Power, Sun' UltraSparc, Fujitsu's...
[August 31, 2005, 13:30]
Itanium suffers setback despite server progress
News However, product delays and difficulties bringing software to the processor family have hampered its debut, and competing chip families such as IBM's Power and Sun's UltraSparc haven't been swept aside.
[January 6, 2005, 8:00]
HP cuts prices on midrange Unix servers
News It follows a similar step that IBM already took with its Power4 chip, that Sun is taking this year with the UltraSparc IV and that Intel will take in 2005 with an Itanium-family chip code-named Montecito.
[April 3, 2003, 7:37]
HP 'should split' - Merrill Lynch
News In October, he sent an open letter to Sun chief executive Scott McNealy, urging him to focus Sun on high-end computing and to exit some of Sun's smaller businesses, including Java, the UltraSparc processor and Linux on the desktop.
[June 8, 2004, 9:25]
Windows takes full-year server market lead
News But its new Galaxy line of x86 servers and UltraSparc T1 Niagara-based servers could help the company in 2006, Eastwood said. Computer makers sold $17.7bn worth of Windows servers worldwide in 2005 compared with $17.5bn in Unix servers, IDC analyst...
[February 22, 2006, 8:05]
Fujitsu Siemens: PC boom days are over
News RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chips such as Sun's UltraSparc are used in high-end servers typically running the Unix operating system. The glory days of growth in the PC industry are gone, according to Fujitsu Siemens Computers chief...
[June 12, 2003, 15:15]
Ten tips for software licensing in a virtual world
Comment Interestingly, though, you pay 50 percent more to run Oracle on the highest-powered UltraSparc CPUs than you do on Intel or AMD x86 processors. Virtualisation sets a number of software-licensing traps for the unwary, but they can largely be avoided...
[November 16, 2009, 11:13]
Sun's high hopes for Niagara
News To achieve the processor overhaul, Sun scrapped its UltraSparc V processor and in the meantime signed a partnership with Fujitsu to use its Sparc64 VI processor in a server family called the Advanced Product Line.
[October 27, 2005, 17:00]
X11: Apple's secret formula
News A Sun Blade 2000 workstation with 1GHz UltraSparc III processor, 2GB of RAM and a 73GB hard drive sells for $15,995. Apple has quietly extended an overture to the Unix community, with the release of software that would make it easier for Unix...
[January 22, 2003, 12:28]
IBM brands OpenSolaris a 'facade'
News And the designs for Sun's new UltraSparc T1 "Niagara" processor have been released under the General Public License. Sun holds it all behind the firewall. The community sees nothing," Dan Frye, the IBM vice president who runs the company's Linux...
[August 17, 2006, 8:45]
IBM conserves power with new chip
News That strategy -- which Sun has already taken with its current UltraSparc III processor and which Advanced Micro Devices has used with its Opteron -- will speed up memory access and improve system reliability, he said.
[October 15, 2003, 8:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They have a thousand Ultrasparc processors in a room with 5 terabytes of disk! Wake up, get out of bed, drag a comb across.oh, hold on, it's 4am and I'm wide awake. Then it comes back: I'm in San Francisco and I'm here for the launch of Sun's Jini...
[January 30, 1999, 8:39]
Intel set to rattle server market with Itanium
News Itanium systems are expected to cost less than traditional Unix servers or workstations, including those based on RISC chips, such as on HP's PA-RISC or Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC III-based Sun Fire servers and Sun Blade workstations.
[May 25, 2001, 15:54]
On the Unix frontline at IBM
News Sun managed to turn things around a little bit recently and gain some market share at IBM's expense, and I noted also during their second quarter of 2006, Sun sold $100m worth of their UltraSparc T1 "Niagara"-based servers.
[August 11, 2006, 11:05]
Java start-up sues Sun over software patents
News Its UltraSparc T1 "Niagara"-based servers are well-suited to running many Java programs simultaneously, Sun argues. Azul Systems, a company selling hardware to run Java programs, has sued Sun Microsystems in a dispute about software patent fees and...
[March 16, 2006, 9:50]
Big Blue to let Squadron fly at Sun and HP
News Sun, too, expects a boost from future processors such as the UltraSparc IV+, due in 2005 and promising to double performance over current systems. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's "Squadron" family of servers using the Power5 processor...
[October 15, 2004, 9:20]
Sun adds Grid to N1 name
News For example, its N1 Grid Service Provisioning -- the software it acquired from CentreRun in 2003 -- costs $1,800 to $2,500 per server, said Yael Zheng, director of N1 Grid marketing, but Sun will begin a $1,000-per-server promotion when it starts...
[February 13, 2004, 11:25]
Sun steers clear of computing slump
News Economics, not Sun's transition to upcoming systems using the new UltraSparc III chip, were at the root of the December order drop, President Ed Zander said. Sun posted net income of 16 cents a share, just as analysts surveyed by First Call had...
[January 19, 2001, 8:19]
IBM puts Power in new blade server
News Sun had expected that it would sell its first UltraSparc blades this year, but a representative said Wednesday that the product might ship "within the next two quarters". Some of the world's largest server companies -- IBM, Sun Microsystems, Dell...
[October 24, 2002, 9:13]
