Lucent to Buy $500 Million Of Sun Servers

Under 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 millio...

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Published inThe Wall Street journal. Eastern edition
Main Author By David P. Hamilton and Stephanie N. Mehta
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y Dow Jones & Company Inc 02.12.1999
EditionEastern edition
Subjects
Alliances
Asset acquisitions
Communications networks
Computers
Electronic commerce
Software
Wireless networks
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Summary:Under 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 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.
ISSN:0099-9660