They start with a list price of $2,995 - significantly cheaper than
equivalent Xeon machines, apparently, plus more enrgy efficient, etc, etc.

There's also a try before you buy scheme -

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/trycoolthreads/index.html?cid=72516

Chris

Manu Abraham wrote On 12/11/05 14:16,:
> Hello Chris,
> 
> 
> Christopher S Saul - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Musa
>>
>>The official launch of the servers using these processors was last week,
>>so we've now get tonnes of excellent benchmarks up on the web.
>>
>>For the target applications - Java, multi-threaded stuff, the results
>>are phenomenal.
>>
>>http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/networkcomputing05q4/
>>
>>Work is being done to encourage BDS and Linux ports and the CPU's
>>architecture itself will actually be open sourced.
>> 
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Any idea on the pricing of an entry level system based on these 
> processors .. ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Manu
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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> 
> 

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