eBay to buy hundreds of Sun x86 servers

Sun has sold hundreds of its new "Galaxy" line of x86 servers to eBay to power the auction site's search technology. eBay is using the X4200 and X4100 machines, which use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, as well as Sun StorEdge storage systems, the server and software company said Monday.

The Galaxy servers can run Sun's Solaris version of Unix as well as the Windows and Linux operating systems, but eBay is using Solaris, Sun said. Sun is expanding into x86 servers such as the Galaxy line, but its mainstay business is for machines using Sparc processors. eBay's PayPal group is evaluating servers using Sun's UltraSparc T1 processor, code-named Niagara. Those systems are expected to be announced next week.

[David Arbogast]

Won't use PayPal and thus eBay

Now, if PayPal wouldn?t force me to give up my bank account and routing numbers to use their service, I might be able to go back to eBay and see how all this stuff works out in a few months. Somebody let me know.

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[jhendric]

You can still use Ebay without using PayPal...

...though I'm not sure why using PayPal is any different than using online banking from your bank. Both are susceptible to similar risks.