Suppose someone high up in your organization announces that your data center choice between IBM’s AIX on Power offerings and Sun’s Solaris on SPARC line is more of a business decision than a technology decision - thus both abrograting and announcing the intended decision. What do you do?

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Sun Microsystems launched on Monday the first servers based on its newest microprocessors as it tries to boost sales of energy-efficient, high-performance computers for businesses.

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Sun Announces Niagara 2 Servers

Sun Microsystems, Inc., has introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve critical problems in the datacenter by offering more performance, higher density, and better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market today. Both servers also give customers a choice of operating systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS), Windows, Linux or VMware, with the flexibility to deploy a broad range of applications.

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New Servers Powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series Extend the Solaris OS Deeper into Mainstream x64 Market.

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Sun Microsystems has nailed its biggest Solaris x86 win to date by lining up IBM as a firm backer of the operating system.

The two companies today revealed that IBM will offer Solaris x86 as an option on a number of its Xeon- and Opteron-based servers. This arrangement provides Sun with its first real Tier 1 OEM partner on the Solaris x86 front. In addition, the two companies have decided to examine Solaris running on IBM’s mainframes and even - gasp - its Power-based systems.

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Never one to cower in the face of hyperbole, Sun Microsystems has come out touting the new eight-core UltraSPARC T2 - aka Niagara II - chip as the world’s fastest microprocessor.

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Sun Microsystems is set to announce its eight-core Niagara 2 processor next week. Each core supports eight threads, so the chip handles 64 simultaneous threads, making it the centerpiece of Sun’s “Throughput Computing” effort.

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Led by Chief Architect, Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun Team Designs Highest Performing Blade Server Supporting Highest Performing Microprocessors from Sun, Intel and AMD, Powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System.

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Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced it has successfully booted the Solaris 10 operating system (OS) on its high-end “ROCK” SPARC processor for the first time. This important milestone comes ahead of schedule and within six weeks of Sun receiving its first shipment of prototype ROCK processors.

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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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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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