【IT168 特别报道】1月22日，Sun与Intel宣布结成策略性联盟，Intel将支持Solaris操作系统作为至强平台上的企业级关键任务UNIX平台，而Sun 则将推出基于Intel Xeon处理器的服务器及工作站产品。双方的协议中涵盖了Sun Solaris、Java、NetBeans以及Intel Xeon处理器的企业级技术合作，并将联合进行工程开发、设计及市场推广。

    此前，Sun一直是AMD的忠实盟友，并一直拒绝使用Intel处理器。Sun公司新任CEO兼总裁乔纳森·舒瓦茨（Jonathan Schwartz）自去年4月份上任后，力求与Intel化敌为友，并最终促成了此次合作。

保罗•欧德宁（右）和乔纳森.施瓦茨（左）在发布会上

    就在双方宣布合作的同一天，乔纳森·舒瓦茨在BLOG上撰文披露了对此次合作的看法和心声，现将全文翻译如下，以供了解：

    “世界改变了！

    相信现在你已经看到了媒体上的相关报道——SUN和英特尔走到了一起，将共同推动Solaris、NetBeans开发环境、Java以及Intel Xeon平台的发展。过几天，你还会看到这样的广告：

    对SUN而言，我们双方的系统工程小组将创建一条基于至强的产品线——包括服务器和工作站，这无疑会进一步扩大SUN已有的SPARC和AMD平台。在过去的一年中，这两个平台都获得了两位数的增长。随着Intel Xeon的加盟，我们将进一步拓展我们的产品线，当然，希望这能加速SUN、客户和Intel的全面成长。注意，我们的产品不仅仅局限于操作系统和计算机业务，别忘了，存储对我们也很重要。

    我们双方将共同开创市场，与ISV和合作伙伴们一起努力，帮助他们支持关键性客户。为此，我们将共同投入相当可观的资源，以确保市场上的共赢。需要澄清的一点是，我们的合作并不是为了取代彼此的竞争对手，而是尽可能地共同把未来的市场做大。毕竟，市场是不会收缩的。

    或许这次合作中最有意思的部分是（至少对企业级用户来说）：我们将围绕更大规模的系统设计做些事情（更大的系统是指4路以上，呵呵，我不是指5路）。我们会对Solaris和Java进行优化，促进彼此虚拟化和性能技术的发展。

    以上就是我想要说的话，尽管大多数主流媒体看起来都把焦点放在了：SUN在产品线上增加Intel芯片，实际上，我相信真正的新闻是——Intel同意在他们的平台上增加Solaris操作系统。

    当然，这只是我个人的观点。

    最后，我想对Intel公司的新朋友们说：祝贺你们！我们期待共同努力！我们在市场上最终走到了一起，确实让人欣慰。”

    翻译如有出入，请以英文原文为准：

     http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/but_we_did_not_hug

   " The World Just Changed

    By now you''ve read the press release, and you know that Sun and Intel are joining forces to drive Solaris, the NetBeans development environment, Java, and the Intel Xeon platform. You''ll see ads that look like this in a few days:

    The short form of the relationship is this - Intel has agreed to endorse and OEM from Sun the open source Solaris OS. Just stop there for a second. If you''re an industry watcher, that''s a pretty big change for the both of us. Intel has annointed Solaris as The Mission Critical Unix for Intel/Xeon. They''re also endorsing, and we''ll jointly be optimizing, the NetBeans and Java platforms, and working with us to fuel the communities from which they spawn. Again, if you''re an insider, that''s a big shift in the market - welcome to the community, Intel!

     On the Sun side, we''re agreeing to pair up our respective systems engineering teams to build a line of Xeon based systems - servers and workstations. These will augment our SPARC and AMD platforms, both of which have been growing double digits over the past year. We''re broadening our offerings with Intel''s Xeon, and certainly hoping to accelerate our overall growth - into our customers, and into Intel''s. And not just in OS''s or computers (don''t forget, our view is that storage is coming our way, too).

　Jointly, we''ll build the market, work with ISV''s and partners, and help support key customers - and invest our considerable resources to ensure mutual success. To be clear, this isn''t about displacing one another''s competitors, it''s about getting as big a piece of the future as possible. The market''s not shrinking, after all.

    Perhaps the most interesting part of the relationship (at least for enterprises) is this: we''re pairing up to do some collaborative engineering around larger systems (where larger implies greater than 4 socket - and no, I''m not talking about 5 socket). Optimized for Solaris and Java, of course, and leveraging one another''s virtualization and performance technologies. Just to keep things interesting. Stay tuned on that front.

    Which is all to say, just when you thought you''d had the industry all figured out, good things happen - and although the coverage in the mainstream media seems focused on our adding Intel chips to our product line, I''d like to believe the real news is that Intel has agreed to add the Solaris operating system to theirs.

    But that''s just me.

    And to our new friends at Intel: congratulations! We''re looking forward to working together! It''s great to finally be on the same side of the market.

    [编者按] SUN与Intel的合作，让人颇感意外，又在情理之中。正如我们曾经分析的那样，Intel和AMD处理器共存于同一家系统厂商，已经越来越成为一种趋势。因为世界在开放！去年戴尔放弃与Intel长达二十多年的排他性协议而采用AMD芯片是这样，今年SUN与Intel牵手也同样如此。

    不管怎样，让UNIX类操作系统Solaris跑在至强平台上确实有着重要的意义。“至强+Solaris”的组合为X86服务器市场带来了一股新风。或许配以多核化和虚拟化，这一组合进而改变X86的中低端形象也并非没有可能。对此，IT168服务器频道将进一步跟踪报道和深入分析，敬请关注。