Last of the red hot Sun servers

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The new Sun Fire X2270 and Sun Fire X4270 servers are the fastest x64 servers Sun has ever produced. Read full story Related News: PS3 clusters hit as Sony gives Linux the flick Sony's announcement of the new PS3 Slim has excited gamers worldwide, but people wanting to run Linux on the console have been shunned with the removal of its 'Install Other OS' feature. Terracotta boosts app-scaling prowess with Ehcache buy Terracotta announced Tuesday that is has acquired the intellectual property behind Ehcache, a popular Java-based open-source distributed caching technology. The greatest open source software of all time Every year InfoWorld painstakingly selects its Bossie Award winners -- the best open source software for business -- and every year we have shamefully neglected the very cream of the open source crop. While we've awarded the Dojos, Xens, and SugarCRMs, we've ignored Linux, GNU, and the *BSDs -- because, well, don't their excellence and importance go without saying? 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