Crazy marketing campaign that makes me laugh aside, the new Sun servers look to be pretty amazing. I think the best part is the pricing– they actually seem to be cheaper than Dell, even with the high-end quad proc Opteron boxes vs. the quad proc Xeon’s at Dell. Even their UltraSparc boxes are priced very well now which is downright shocking to me (though I think this has been a trend for them in the last year or so).

One big advantage in my eyes of the Opteron platform is the availability of dual-core CPU’s, which essentially allow you to process twice as many threads using the same number of CPU’s. A quad proc, dual-core Opteron running Solaris (which of many other advantages, is able to assign more RAM to the JVM heap vs. Windows) would prove to be a pretty awesome application server I would imagine…