Sun is officially giving customers a wider choice on its SPARC servers with the announcement that it will support Linux on its new multicore UltraSPARC T1 systems.

Sun has spent the last few years expanding customer choice with a growing portfolio of x86 systems that run Linux and Solaris. But the announcement this week that a Linux distribution would be serviced and supported on Sun’s SPARC platform is a first, industry experts say.

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