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    Published: July 20, 2006 -- 15:56 GMT (08:56 PDT)

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Execs show off new Sun Fires and its tower of blade power, the Sun Blade 8000, code-named Andromeda.

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John Fowler

John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems' systems group, shows the company's new Sun Blade 8000 server chassis at a launch event Tuesday in San Francisco. The system can accommodate as many as 10 four-processor blade servers.

Published: July 20, 2006 -- 15:56 GMT (08:56 PDT)

Caption by: Bill Detwiler

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