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It's not clear to me that selling chips to Sun is a huge burden to Intel. Intel will sell chips to whoever is willing to pay for them. That's how they make money.

This article is pretty short on detail. However, assuming that Intel becomes a significant part of the Sun line, it would seem challenging to develop, market, and sell products based on 3 different product lines. Sun once prided themselves on
having only 1 operating system and a processor family. Now they have have 3 processor families and 2 operating systems.
For each potential customer, you have to decide what you are going to sell.

As to your Linux comment (can't we have any discussion without bringing up Linux vs MS?), I don't think Intel cares if users run Windows, Safari, Linux, or anything else. They sell processors. They don't care if you make earrings out them, as long as you are buying their products.
Posted by: CattleProd   Posted on: 01/22/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Bad, bad move for Intel  Prognosticator | 01/22/07
Huh?  CattleProd | 01/22/07
Have you ever actually used Solaris  shallow_diver | 01/22/07
And now anyone can get Solaris for FREE!!!  nix_hed | 01/26/07
Crummy Platform Vendor  JackPastor | 01/22/07
Hypertransport?  DevGuy_z | 01/22/07
I doubt it is a lot of resource for intel  DevGuy_z | 01/22/07
50% of Sun's business is puny..  Prognosticator | 01/22/07
MS is the Overall Loser  bcroner | 01/22/07
We will see more and more  bjbrock | 01/22/07
Mr. Murphy will be pleased.  Anton Philidor | 01/22/07
Yup  DevGuy_z | 01/22/07
CPU  BALTHOR | 01/22/07
hmmm, not quite  maldain | 01/23/07
This is ironic, since Sun almost killed off Solaris x86  AldoWatts | 01/24/07

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