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Report: Fujitsu to offer Longhorn on new servers

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Jun 24, 20041 min

Fujitsu adds a Longhorn option to its product mix for new range of servers

Fujitsu Ltd. is set to announce next week that it will offer the next major version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows OS on high-performance servers, according to a report in the Thursday morning edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.

The OS, which is not expected to be available until at least 2006, will be used in a planned range of servers that will run in Intel Corp. 64-bit processors, said the report. Versions of the machines based on a current version of Windows and the Linux operating system were already planned and Fujitsu will add a Longhorn option to its product mix, the newspaper said.

Fujitsu declined to comment on the report.

The company is planning to hold a news conference in Tokyo on Monday next week at which Naoyuki Akikusa, its chairman, will attend along with Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, and Michael Rawding, president and CEO of Microsoft Co. Ltd., Microsoft’s Japanese subsidiary.