Sun buys server company, rehires cofounder

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Feb 11, 20042 mins

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Sun buys server company, rehires cofounder, 02/11/04

Sun Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire Kealia, a privately held server design company in California, and in the process is rehiring one of Sun’s cofounders to help design the company’s high-volume servers.

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Sun sets off with Opteron, rolls out new RISC boxes, 02/10/04

Sun Tuesday unveiled its first server based on the 32-/64-bit Opteron chip, the first product to come out of a partnership Sun announced with AMD less than three months ago. Sun also took the wraps of five new Unix servers, all leveraging the multi-threading technology in the new UltraSPARC IV processor.

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Sun to boost partitioning in Solaris 10, 02/10/04

Sun Tuesday outlined planned improvements for Version 10 of its Solaris operating system, part of its quarterly update of new hardware and software products.

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Sun, HP put 64-bit power in spotlight, 02/09/04

Looking to offer machines that do more yet cost less, Sun and HP this week are expected to expand their server families with boxes that promise 64-bit capabilities at prices competitive with 32-bit …

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0209server.html?nl

Java gets makeover with J2SE upgrade, 02/05/04

Sun has released a beta version of the next release of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE), a set of specifications used for creating desktop applications and which also form the basis of Java development …

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