In Sunny Switzerland

Sun Microsystems Inc. has announced that leading Swiss telecommunications carrier Swisscom Mobile has selected Sun Fire T2000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System and the Sun Java Identity Management Suite for its 1145 retail stores.

Swisscom Mobile’s Siebel CRM project was implemented in 2002, and today reportedly stands as one of the largest Siebel implementations in the world. At that time Sun supplied large SMP servers to run the Siebel 7 deployment.

Sun will be deploying UltraSPARC T1 processors, CoolThreads technology, and eight 1.2-GHz cores per processor handling four threads each. Important PR to note: The UltraSPARC T1 processor in the Sun Fire 2000 server is claimed to be the world’s first eco-responsible processor, consuming just 70 watts – or the same power as about one light bulb – and less than half the energy of comparable Intel Xeon or IBM Power processors.