Sun confirms penchant for Intel chips

SUN MICROSYSTEMS and Intel Corporation today confirmed what Charlie told the world on Saturday and the staffer confirmed on Sunday - they're gonna be mates.

"Solaris runs beautifully on Xeon," said Sun CEO Schwartz.

"What have you got? What have we got? let's put them together," said one of the chaps in the conference call. We think it was the one with the ponytail. "No one could possibly think that this is anything but a great relationship," he enthused.

Intel CEO, Paul Otellini said Sun was a "good company to work with" but added he didn't want to get into the Itanium "religious war".

The firms said they'd agreed "a broad strategic alliance centered on Intel's endorsement of the Solaris Operating System and Sun's commitment to deliver a comprehensive family of enterprise and telecommunications servers and workstations based on Intel Xeon processors".

Sun said it will deliver dual processor Xeon systems "pretty soon".

Schwartz said he expected the duo to, "Blow everyone else in the marketplace away". µ

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