Sun Microsystems hopes to woo Microsoft solution providers to sell Windows running on Sun's new Advanced Micro Devices Opteron boxes with two new promotions launched this week.
At an event in San Francisco Tuesday night, Sun, Santa Clara, Calif., unveiled the promotions, which run through Nov. 30, for its new Opteron workstations and four-way servers, both of which recently have been certified to run Windows.
Sun is offering up to 35 percent off the regular prices for select models of Opteron workstations and servers certified to run Windows, said John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun's Network Systems Group, at the event.
This promotion is open to Microsoft Certified Professionals, including Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers. MCSEs and MCPs also can offer 50 percent off the Sun Java Creator IDE tool for Java development, which is certified to run on Windows.
The second promotion is open to all customers and partners, and offers up to 25 percent off select multiple unit purchases of the Sun Fire V40z four-way Solaris server, which also runs Red Hat or SuSE Linux, as well as Windows OSes with Microsoft Hardware Compatibility certifications.
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