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#1 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:51 AM

Greetings!

Don't want to sound blasphemous, but I would like to satisfy my
curiosity. Can Microsoft 2000 or Microsoft 2003 Server install/run on the
Sun x86 platform servers? Has anyone out there tried it or had any
experience with it?

Cheers,
Joe

#2 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:51 AM

In article <DLQPb.2970$tL2.1870@nwrddc03.gnilink.net>,
Joseph Dimech <joe@tsc-corp.com> wrote:
> Don't want to sound blasphemous, but I would like to satisfy my
>curiosity. Can Microsoft 2000 or Microsoft 2003 Server install/run on the
>Sun x86 platform servers? Has anyone out there tried it or had any

The LX50, V60, V65 should all run Microsoft's poison. My guess is
that older Microsoft OS will require drivers from the vendor.
Sun will be submitting certifications for its x86 servers to MS.
<URL:http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/16/HNsunx86_1.html>

John
groenveld@acm.org

#3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:51 AM

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, John D Groenveld wrote:

> The LX50, V60, V65 should all run Microsoft's poison. My guess is
> that older Microsoft OS will require drivers from the vendor.
> Sun will be submitting certifications for its x86 servers to MS.
> <URL:http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/16/HNsunx86_1.html>

I guess that's OK - so long as they don't put those stupid
"Designed for Windoze" stickers on them.

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#4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:51 AM

Sure! These things aren't much more than generic x86 boxes. I tried
just that for fun on an LX50 early on (man did the rails on that thing
SUCK) As long as your OS has drivers for the hardare (most do.) You
can run Solaris/linux/windows/CPM (ok, maybe not) or whatever. And
given that the newer machines are competetively priced they could be a
good choice for people otherwise looking at machines from a company
that will remain nameless but whose initals are DELL

"Joseph Dimech" <joe@tsc-corp.com> wrote in message news:<DLQPb.2970$tL2.1870@nwrddc03.gnilink.net>...
> Greetings!
>
> Don't want to sound blasphemous, but I would like to satisfy my
> curiosity. Can Microsoft 2000 or Microsoft 2003 Server install/run on the
> Sun x86 platform servers? Has anyone out there tried it or had any
> experience with it?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Joe

#5 (**permalink**) 01-16-2008, 11:52 AM

Both the V60/V65x and LX50 and just rebranded Intel servers (SR-1200,
SR-3200 etc).
I get my spares (mostly fans) from Intel as they're much cheaper than Sun.

Andy

"Joseph Dimech" <joe@tsc-corp.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings!
>
> Don't want to sound blasphemous, but I would like to satisfy my
> curiosity. Can Microsoft 2000 or Microsoft 2003 Server install/run on the
> Sun x86 platform servers? Has anyone out there tried it or had any
> experience with it?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
>

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