Sun Netra T5440 Released!

Sun has announced a Netra version of the UltraSPARC-T2 Plus architecture, the Netra T5440. The first thing I noticed about this server is that it's not the four-way UltraSPARC-T2 Plus server that has been talked about, the T5440. This Netra server is only a dual socket system. Sure it has a lot of I/O capacity for telco requirements, but it's missing two processors! It should have been called something else. I have no doubt that when the four-way non-Netra T5440 comes to market, this will cause confusion for customers. Still it is an interesting server and is heavily influenced by Telco requirements.