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Archive for April, 2007

Sun Micro Gets the Cold Shoulder

Shares slumped Wednesday after the IT outfit reported a quarterly profit, as investors fretted that it faces increasing competition.

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SPARC Enterprise Server

After two years of co-development, Sun and Fujitsu introduced their new SPARC Enterprise Servers at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The companies today unveiled six new products ranging from entry level to high-end.

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Sun seeks profit from Internet TV

Sun Microsystems’ bread and butter is selling general-purpose servers, but on Wednesday the company began selling an extremely specialized product designed to cram as many streams of video onto the Internet as possible.

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Sun throws new switch and three racks of metal at video

At long last, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim’s super secret switch has become not so secret.

Sun Microsystems today unveiled the x4950 streaming switch – the crucial component to a new video serving system.

The technology behind the box dates back to Bechtolsheim’s start-up Kealia, which Sun acquired in 2004, bringing Bechtolsheim back to the company he helped found. With the x4950, Sun has again released a system quite different from anything else made by main rivals IBM, HP and Dell.

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