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Loading ...Sun sidles into Windows market
You might wonder how Sun plans to gain any advantages for Solaris by announcing a partnership with Microsoft today whereby it will offer Windows Server on its x64 hardware and some utilities. It’s really an access play. Suddenly Sun has a better chance to get in front of Windows Server customers, which will help its hardware sales, but it also opens up a choice for those customers to switch teams more easily if they ever wanted to.
This would have been better timed to coincide with the launch of Windows Server 2008, but Sun could use the lift and probably didn’t want to count on Microsoft sticking to its release dates.
