牵手Intel SUN总裁博客吐心声(2)

    翻译如有出入，请以英文原文为准：

     http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/but_we_did_not_hug

   " The World Just Changed

    By now you''ve read the press release, and you know that Sun and Intel are joining forces to drive Solaris, the NetBeans development environment, Java, and the Intel Xeon platform. You''ll see ads that look like this in a few days:

    The short form of the relationship is this - Intel has agreed to endorse and OEM from Sun the open source Solaris OS. Just stop there for a second. If you''re an industry watcher, that''s a pretty big change for the both of us. Intel has annointed Solaris as The Mission Critical Unix for Intel/Xeon. They''re also endorsing, and we''ll jointly be optimizing, the NetBeans and Java platforms, and working with us to fuel the communities from which they spawn. Again, if you''re an insider, that''s a big shift in the market - welcome to the community, Intel!

     On the Sun side, we''re agreeing to pair up our respective systems engineering teams to build a line of Xeon based systems - servers and workstations. These will augment our SPARC and AMD platforms, both of which have been growing double digits over the past year. We''re broadening our offerings with Intel''s Xeon, and certainly hoping to accelerate our overall growth - into our customers, and into Intel''s. And not just in OS''s or computers (don''t forget, our view is that storage is coming our way, too).

　Jointly, we''ll build the market, work with ISV''s and partners, and help support key customers - and invest our considerable resources to ensure mutual success. To be clear, this isn''t about displacing one another''s competitors, it''s about getting as big a piece of the future as possible. The market''s not shrinking, after all.

    Perhaps the most interesting part of the relationship (at least for enterprises) is this: we''re pairing up to do some collaborative engineering around larger systems (where larger implies greater than 4 socket - and no, I''m not talking about 5 socket). Optimized for Solaris and Java, of course, and leveraging one another''s virtualization and performance technologies. Just to keep things interesting. Stay tuned on that front.

    Which is all to say, just when you thought you''d had the industry all figured out, good things happen - and although the coverage in the mainstream media seems focused on our adding Intel chips to our product line, I''d like to believe the real news is that Intel has agreed to add the Solaris operating system to theirs.

    But that''s just me.

    And to our new friends at Intel: congratulations! We''re looking forward to working together! It''s great to finally be on the same side of the market.

    [编者按] SUN与Intel的合作，让人颇感意外，又在情理之中。正如我们曾经分析的那样，Intel和AMD处理器共存于同一家系统厂商，已经越来越成为一种趋势。因为世界在开放！去年戴尔放弃与Intel长达二十多年的排他性协议而采用AMD芯片是这样，今年SUN与Intel牵手也同样如此。

    不管怎样，让UNIX类操作系统Solaris跑在至强平台上确实有着重要的意义。“至强+Solaris”的组合为X86服务器市场带来了一股新风。或许配以多核化和虚拟化，这一组合进而改变X86的中低端形象也并非没有可能。对此，IT168服务器频道将进一步跟踪报道和深入分析，敬请关注。

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