Lucent Agrees to Buy Servers From Sun

Under the terms of the agreement, Lucent will base its wireless network architecture, called Flexent, on a new generation of Sun's low-end Netra servers. Lucent helped Sun establish the specifications for the new Netra servers, which haven't yet been released, and has agreed to buy at leas...

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Published inWall Street journal. Europe
Main Author By David P. Hamilton and Stephanie N. Mehta
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brussels Dow Jones & Company Inc 02.12.1999
EditionEurope
Subjects
Alliances
Communications networks
Computer peripherals
Electronic commerce
Software
Wireless networks
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Summary:Under the terms of the agreement, Lucent will base its wireless network architecture, called Flexent, on a new generation of Sun's low-end Netra servers. Lucent helped Sun establish the specifications for the new Netra servers, which haven't yet been released, and has agreed to buy at least $500 million of the new machines over the next seven years. In addition, Lucent and Sun have agreed to jointly develop new hardware, software and service "bundles" intended to help businesses quickly start up electronic commerce. Such bundles will be sold by Lucent, and consist of software from both Lucent and the Sun-Netscape Alliance, an e-commerce software venture of Sun and America Online Inc. The bundles will also generally be based on Sun's computer hardware, said John McFarland, president of Sun's network service-provider division.
ISSN:0921-9986