Debian boost as Sun buys SPARC edge start-up

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From The Register:
“Sun Microsystems is buying infrastructure start-up Afara Websystems, Sun VP David Yen said today.
Afara says it produces IP traffic management systems on its one-page web site, and is backed by embedded systems investor Raza Foundries.
Afara already has a connection to Sun, employing for a while Kathirgamar Aingaran, one of the principle authors of the 64bit UltraSPARC V9 family. (V7
and 8 were the 32bit SPARCs.”