Fujitsu picks up Opteron now too

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10..._goes_opteron/

Wonder if Fujitsu will also offer Solaris on its Opteron boxes?

On 18 Oct 2005 12:40:10 -0700, "YKhan" wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10..._goes_opteron/

Wonder if Fujitsu will also offer Solaris on its Opteron boxes?

Fujitsu wasn't exactly "Intel only", they were actually one of the
first companies to jump on board with the Opteron for workstations.
They also offer AMD Turion based notebooks and Athlon64 desktop PCs in
both their consumer and commercial line-up.

Really the server space was their one and only hold-out that didn't
have AMD products pretty well integrated throughout, and now that has
changed.

I wonder of things are seeming a little lonely for Dell these days?

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Tony Hill
hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca

Tony Hill wrote:
On 18 Oct 2005 12:40:10 -0700, "YKhan" wrote:


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10..._goes_opteron/

Wonder if Fujitsu will also offer Solaris on its Opteron boxes?


Fujitsu wasn't exactly "Intel only", they were actually one of the
first companies to jump on board with the Opteron for workstations.
They also offer AMD Turion based notebooks and Athlon64 desktop PCs in
both their consumer and commercial line-up.

Wasn't that actually Fujitsu-Siemens rather than Fujitsu?

Yousuf Khan

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:00:51 -0400, Tony Hill
wrote:

On 18 Oct 2005 12:40:10 -0700, "YKhan" wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10..._goes_opteron/

Wonder if Fujitsu will also offer Solaris on its Opteron boxes?

Fujitsu wasn't exactly "Intel only", they were actually one of the
first companies to jump on board with the Opteron for workstations.
They also offer AMD Turion based notebooks and Athlon64 desktop PCs in
both their consumer and commercial line-up.

They offered an Athlon based notebook in the U.S. a while back but not for
long and wth XP Home IIRC. They had better offerings in EU for AMD-based
notebooks but sold under Fujitsu-Siemens branding.... stank of Intel
embargo to me because their notebooks are quite good AFAIK. They have a
Turion-based system now though - just one AFAICT with some options price
range.

Really the server space was their one and only hold-out that didn't
have AMD products pretty well integrated throughout, and now that has
changed.

I wonder of things are seeming a little lonely for Dell these days?

Judging by the recent 3Q sales, they don't care.... yet.:-)

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Rgds, George Macdonald