Three of the top four server sellers are rallying around InfiniBand, giving a shot in the arm to a high-speed networking technology that's suffered recent setbacks.
Sun Microsystems could release its second blade server design, a thin system based on an Athlon processor, by year-end, a few months later than expected.
IBM continued to march ahead of rivals in 2004 in server sales, a key market in the computing industry, making gains in models using x86 chips and the Unix operating system.
After three years of declines, Sun Microsystems returned to revenue growth in its fourth quarter of fiscal 2004.
Top server makers announced a bevy of new servers Monday as Hewlett-Packard describes its first four-processor "blade" system and IBM overhauls a mid-range product line with a new processor and a method to accommodate computing surges.
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