[geeks] $2 Billion MS Bucks for Sun!?!?!

[Scott Howard]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 03:11:16AM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> [...] Sun will certify
> Xeon/Opteron servers for Windows...

That's not quite right.  These servers will be certified for Windows by
the vendor of the motherboard and/or Intel, not by Sun themselves.

The primary reason for the certification is to give customers more
options and more flexability - if they but the Sun machines then they
are not locked into only running Sun OS'es on them - if they decide to
re-deploy them somewhere where Windows is needed then they can do so.

> That's, uhm, good for Sun - right?

Some of my options are worth something again - it must be a good thing
:)

  Scott