With the recent announcement of the Coolthreads technology (formerly Niagara), I think we are finally starting to see the strategy behind the years of madness at Sun.  While seemingly watching the commodity hardware market go by and constantly harping that "Software is going to free", there didn't seem to be anything left except services for Sun (Sun grid and Java Enterprise subscriptions???)  But with it's processors (and presumably systems) a step ahead of the competition, having all your software a commodity is probably a smart thing.  If they can get enough people convinced of deploying their java apps on Solaris (for dtrace and other cool features)  then the natural complement to Solaris is these new breed of servers (and presumable more to come).

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