Sun Microsystems Inc has now agreed to joint marketing of its products with Star Technologies Inc’s Sparc+Texas Instruments 8847 vector processor-based Star 910/VP minisupercomputer server launched last July (CI No 1,464). Sun says that the combination of Sun workstations and servers with Star’s servers on a network is a cost-effective offering for high-performance segments of the scientific and engineering markets. Sun and Star will participate in joint marketing and sales activities, including joint sales calls, seminars and other promotional efforts. It is not clear whether Sun has dropped its own minisuper plans.
