Sun's Galaxy

Sun Microsystems Inc. introduced new
industry-standard servers that it said
will more than triple the amount of the
computer server market it can address
as the computer maker seeks to rebuild
momentum lost to rivals since the dot
-com bust nearly five years ago.

The servers, named X2100, X4100 and
X4200, use Opteron micro -processors
from Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD).
The new servers, which can house up to two dual-core Opteron chips, are
in addition to two-processor and four-processor Opteron servers that Sun
already sells. The company said that the new servers are cheaper, faster,
use less power and take up less space than comparable servers made by
rival companies, such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard Co.

The servers run Sun's Solaris operating system, which the company
recently open-sourced to the software developer community, as well as
commercially available versions of Linux, among other operating systems.

The X2100 server starts at $745, the X4100 starts at $2,195, and the
X4200 $2,595, Sun said. The X4100 and X4200 had been code-named
Galaxy.