All four of the new systems include full hardware redundancy, redundant storage and network connections and allow for live operating system upgrades, Sun said.

CNN: CeBIT: Sun puts new servers in spotlight

But now the hardware sells at give-away prices, the connections are often completed within hours and the stocks are down from their record peaks.

CNN: Cell-Phones On the Line

To a standard silicon layout from ARM, Luminary adds functions like Ethernet connections, flash memory and motion-control hardware.

FORBES: Smarter, Cheaper

He bets that corporations will ditch their old wire-line telephone hardware and buy new phones that send and receive calls over the same broadband connections that hook desktop computers to the internet.

FORBES: Celtic charm