“According to a report from researcher IDC, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) was the only one (of the top four global server vendors) to experience year-over-year revenue growth during the second quarter ended in June. Frankly, the numbers for the entire server market are startling: I mean, wow. What happened? Opteron, that’s what. Sun adopted Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD) speedy server chip more than two years ago, and it appears to be paying dividends at Dell’s expense in the high-growth x86 — or Intel-compatible — segment of the market.”

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