Analysis of the Sun/Intel Agreement

07:43 | Paul Lancour | Jan 23rd, 2007 9:54am |

Jean Bozman is research vice president of the enterprise computing group at IDC. In this podcast, recorded at the St. Regis hotel in San Francisco, she shares her thoughts on the just-announced Sun/Intel strategic alliance.

Transcript:
Host: Paul Lancour - PodTech
Guest: Jean Bozman – IDC

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation announced a major agreement on Monday, between the two companies. The alliance is centered on Intel’s endorsement of Sun Solaris Operating System and Sun’s announcement that it will be delivering Servers and Workstations, based on Intel’s Xeon processors. The announcement was made by Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini, in San Francisco. Jean Bozman is Research Vice President of the Enterprise Computing Group at IDC. I caught up with her shortly after the presentation at St. Regis Hotel.

Jean Bozman - IDC
I have covered Sun since the 80’s. It’s pretty much why I wanted to see this because if you look at it in historical perspective. This is very interesting, this is something that a lot of people thought, would never happen.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Why not?

Jean Bosman - IDC
Because, if you look at the history there were ...