Sun Microsystems hosted its Network Computing Q4 2005 announcement extravaganza in New York today, and as we report elsewhere, the company rolled out the “Niagara” T1 eight-core processors and made its case for eco-friendly, cost-effective computing with the new T1000 and T2000 servers that make use of the chip. And in a surprising move, after several hours of positioning the boxes, Sun chairman and CEO, Scott McNealy, announced that Sun would be taking the T1 processor open source.
Link: itjungle.com
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- Open Source
