eBay and Sun Microsystems Expand Global Collaborative Alliance

[mandy]

eBay and Sun Expand Global Collaborative Alliance Highlighting Support for Sun's Dual Core x64 Server Strategy to Provide Increased Productivity and Reliability

Sun Java ™ Platform Powers eBay Sites Worldwide, Helps Connect Community of 168 Million Users

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that eBay.com is bolstering its search environment with hundreds of Sun's new AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire™ x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and Sun StorEdge™ systems, for better performance and energy-efficiency. The move comes in time for the peak holiday online purchase season on eBay ...

full press release:  http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051128/sfm044.html?.v=31

[bargainbloodhound]

Excellent news.  Not only did eBay make changes to the search functions right in the middle of the holiday selling season, but they are also making changes to the actual search servers during the busiest time of the year. 

This solidified technology alliance is an important milestone in the eight-year technology and marketing relationship between eBay and Sun

It doesn't seem like that 8-year relationship has helped Sun that much http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SUNW&t=5y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=  :twistedevil: