This is something that Sun has needed to do for a long time in order to get parity with HP and IBM. They need to show customers that their systems have the ability to manage IT resources according to business need — without human intervention — in order to catch up to HP and IBM.

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I believe we will see at least one speed bump for POWER chips and probably a bump for SPARC during the course of 2006. In many ways, these chips are harnessed in the Unix systems that are the workhorses of the enterprise infrastructure, where they are running massively large workloads with exacting availability requirements.

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