Today Sun announced an expanded partnership with Fujitsu that will result in joint development and joint distribution between the companies for next-generation SPARC and Solaris systems. HUGE news. Wall Street likes it. Go SUNW!
And to think, I knew it first. And I didn't even know I knew it first until I logged onto Sun.com and saw the news....
Yesterday, in the interview I conducted with Jonathan Schwartz (see previous blog entry for more) he was talking to me about how some of Sun's competitors (HP, not to name names) have tied the future of their HP-UX operating system to the success of the Itanium system, and are therefore unable to participate in the systems evolution on industry-standard servers.
Let's hear the rest straight from Jonathan:
"If you contrast that with how Sun is approaching the marketplace, we've said that the market is growing. The market for high-scale systems is growing. And we're going to continue working -- not just ourselves but with our partners -- to evolve the marketplace for scalable systems with SPARC. And the partner I have in mind is Fujitsu.
"We're going to give customers choice in where they want to run the highest-scale, highest quality operating system -- Solaris -- available on the market today. They can either run it on high scale systems produced by Sun or Fujitsu or they can run them on any number -- well over a couple hundred now -- of industry-standard servers running Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron systems produced by every vendor in the market place.
"That gives customers choice. That also gives our company an opportunity to participate with a competitive advantage against companies that are following a traditional path and are going to fall, I think, on the sharp edge of conventional wisdom."
see, folks sometimes i'm so good at getting scoop, that i don't actually realize that i got it...
Big, big day today. It's the opening day of the Asian debut of the SunNetwork Conference. It's a coming-out party, people and I'm here to cover it for you! Big keynotes. You're going to get the play-by-play here on the MaryMaryQuiteContrary blog. We'll be giving you live, up-to-the-minute reports on breaking developments.
check early, check often.
have fun! (you know i'm going to :-)
mary
p.s. check out the outfit today. professional, eh. told you it was a big day. i dressed up. you should see the shoes. accessorize ladies, accessorize.
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