Sun has strong ties with AMD, which recently announced its Barcelona quad-core Opteron chip. The servers not only nurtures Sun's ties with Intel, but also provides more choice to customers looking to buy x86-based servers, said a Sun spokeswoman. Sun's rivals in the x86 server space include IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. Targeted at organizations that need performance and energy efficiency, the servers offer better size, performance and energy efficiency than competing products, Tong said. Sun is looking to add support for Microsoft Corp.'s Virtual Server virtualization software, Tong said. The servers will run either Sun Solaris, Linux or Windows 2003 OSes and support VMware's virtualization software. The servers will ship with the embedded Lights Out Manager, a system controller that helps users manage and administer servers. The X4450 and X4150 will also support Intel's 72 dual-core processors, respectively. The X4150, starting at $2,995, will ship in the U.S. Starting at US$8,895, the X4450 server will ship worldwide in October, said Rebecca Tong, product line manager at Sun. Both servers offer memory capacity ranging from 2G bytes to 128G bytes. The X4450 is a four-socket, 2U server powered by Intel's quad-core Xeon 7300 processors, while the 1U Sun Fire X4150 is a two-socket server powered by Intel's quad-core Xeon 5300 processors.
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