Sun Maintains Leadership Position, Wins Marketshare From Competitors
Sun Ships More RISC/UNIX Servers Than Three Nearest Competitors Combined
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) today announced that it once again holds the number one position in the RISC/UNIX server market worldwide. According to 3Q01 Dataquest numbers, Sun's 55 percent marketshare in shipments is more than that of its nearest three competitors combined. Furthermore, with nearly $1.5 billion in revenue, Sun has significantly outpaced its competitors in marketshare revenue gain.
In the U.S. market, Sun gained 4 percentage points in marketshare in shipments and revenue sequentially from Q2CY01. In its third quarter of volume shipping, the Sun Fire(TM) server line shipped 39 percent more servers from the previous quarter and contributed a 22 percent revenue gain. Sun Fire servers are the ideal platform for customers who are looking for innovative technology based upon the industry leading Solaris(TM) Operating Environment and Sun's UltraSPARC(TM) III processors. Key to the market success of the Sun Fire servers are features including Dynamic Reconfiguration, full hardware redundancy, hot CPU upgrades, and the ability to utilize the same boards all the way from the Sun Fire 3800 to the Sun Fire 15K.
Sun strengthened it's position in the low-end market with over 17,000 Netra(TM) servers shipped this quarter in the U.S. The Netra product family gives Sun customers who value ruggedized, reliable, rack-optimized servers a simple solution on a common system architecture, offering customers an easy upgrade path and the ability to scale to continually meet changing business requirements.
``Sun is expanding into more accounts and deepening our market penetration across all verticals, including healthcare, manufacturing and retail,'' said John Shoemaker, executive vice president and general manager, Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems. ``On the high-end and midrange, Sun provides an alternative to IBM with features typically only found in mainframes but at a fraction of the cost. And on the low-end, our marketshare results exemplify that customers are demanding an alternative to the closed, proprietary and unreliable world of Wintel. Across the board, our server line is the ultimate platform for driving down our customers' total cost of ownership.'' |
