Sun is known for its UltraSparc family of RISC  processors, which compete against Intel's high-end Xeon x86 processors. In recent years, Sun adopted both Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Xeon's and AMD (NYSE: AMD) Opteron server processors, an acknowledgement of the dominance (and customer demand) of x86 in the server world.

The rumors first hit the Internet last month with a lengthy blog post by Gary Burgess, senior vice president of research and operations at Australian market research firm IDEAS International, who had attended one of the Sun Welcome Events Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) hosted around the world to explain its Sun strategy to its customers.

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