Sun to put Solaris on machines with AMD chips.

MSI, April, 2004

Sun Microsystems is continuing its bid to compete in the market for lower-end servers by announcing plans to put its Solaris operating system on machines powered by the Opeteron chip from AMD. The low end of the server market has been dominated by Intel-based machines running Microsoft operating systems.

And as those machines became more powerful and reliable, they started attracting users of Sun servers, which ran on Sun's proprietary SPARC chip and its Solaris operating system.

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