Sun Scorches Competition in High-End UNIX Server Market IBM Outshipped by 625
Percent, HP by 381 Percent in Q4CY99 as Sun Storms To Fifth Straight Quarter
Atop Leader Board
PALO ALTO, Calif., Apr 17, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- There is no denying
that the final quarter of calendar year 1999 was a real scorcher for Sun
Microsystems' (Nasdaq: SUNW) high-end UNIX(R) server business.
According to International Data Corp.'s Q4CY99 Server Tracker report, Sun
shipped 428 units of its biggest Solaris(TM) Operating Environment-based servers
for that quarter, blistering the likes of IBM and HP and preserving its lead in
the coveted high-end UNIX server market for the fifth consecutive quarter.
Combined, IBM and HP managed to ship just 148 high-end UNIX server units.
The IDC report -- one of the industry's standard measurement tools for the
server market -- also concluded that Sun singed its competitors in high-end UNIX
server revenue. Led by the acclaimed Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 server (also know
as Starfire(TM)), Sun generated revenue of $344 million. That is nearly double
the high-end UNIX server revenue of IBM, which tallied $182 million on 59 unit
shipments, and more than triple HP's $107 million on 89 unit shipments. IDC
classifies high-end servers as those costing $1 million or more.
"This puts a big, bold exclamation point on another extraordinary year for our
Starfire server business," stated John Shoemaker, vice president and general
manager of Sun's server and workstation systems business units. "What's evident
is that the clarity of our road map, the continuity of our operating system
strategy, the integrity of our products and the unflagging support of the ISV
community give us a tremendous advantage in sales situations. More importantly,
the customer understands that the path of least disruption runs through Sun."
About the Starfire Server
The mainframe-class Sun Enterprise 10000 server, or Starfire, server provides up
to 64 processors and 16 Dynamic System Domains; Sun is the only UNIX platform
vendor to offer these features. The Starfire server enables customers to run the
most demanding, multi-terabyte applications for data warehousing, decision
support, online transaction processing and data analytics on a single, scalable
server.
The system hosts more than 12,700 applications for the Solaris Operating
Environment software and can be clustered with up to four nodes for even greater
uptime. The Sun Enterprise 10000 server contains up to 64 GB of shared memory
and can support more than 20 TB of storage to confidently handle extreme data
warehousing situations.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc., to its position as a
leading provider of hardware, software and services for establishing
enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more
than $14 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries
and on the World Wide Web at sun.com.
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Enterprise, Starfire, Solaris and
The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. UNIX is a
registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively
licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd.
CONTACT: Dave Blackburn of Sun Microsystems, Inc., 650-596-2296, or
dave.blackburn@sun.com; or Marla Dierkes of Ketchum Thomas, 650-596-2296, or
marla@thomaspr.com, for Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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