Sun to announce AMD Opteron tie-up today

Sun will say today that it's launching a range of Opteron servers and Solaris will be part of the picture as well, and will be optimised for the X86-64 platform.

Both firms will trumpet the deal later today at Comdex 2003 in Las Vegas, and is set to irritate the heck out of Intel, which hates Sun Microsystems with a vengeance.

Officials at AMD and Sun are describing it as a broad strategic alliance on several fronts, which makes it a more potent combination than McNealy's firm just using Opteron chips. McNealy gives the keynote at today's Comdex 2003.

Sun has lacked a chunk of machines at the lower level but there's always the danger that the Opteron may prove more attractive than its own machines using its own Ultra Sparky microprocessors.

Sun will sell machines that use two- and four-way Opteron conditions at a cheaper price than Intel boxes, but it won't happen until early next year. It's also going to adapt Java and Slowaris for the AMD Opteron platform. µ

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