[geeks] Sun is now a Microsoft OEM...

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Wed Sep 12 19:52:33 CDT 2007


On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:33:31PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Seeing as they charge a lot of money for their x64 hardware, and it  
> is decently designed (not quite as great as their older SPARC hw),  
> they are probably just doing it for the cash, which they need in any  
> case.

They've always certified Windows on their x64 systems; now they're 
just adding it as an installed option on them.

Some places want all of their *nix/Win hardware from a single vendor,
and this lets Sun do that.

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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