InformationWeek Honors Java Platform, Starfire
Server as Among Most Important Products of '90s
Sun Microsystems One of Only Two Companies With Multiple Products Recognized
PALO ALTO, Calif.,Feb. 2/PRNewswire/--In the Dec. 20-27,1999 edition, InformationWeek,a premierinformation-technology newsmagazine, honored Sun Microsystems' Java(TM) platform and its high-end flagship Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 server (aka Starfire(TM)) as among the top 10 most important and influential products of the last decade. Sun(TM) was one of only two companies recognized for multiple products.
The Java platform, noted for emerging as ``the Web's favorite tool,' topped the list. It was cited as the decade's top product for its ``write-once-run-anywhere computing' capability. To date, more than two million copies of the Java 2 platform have been downloaded from Sun's web site, a testament to the current ubiquity of Java.
``We're pleased with the success that the Java platform has gained in such a remarkably short time. The Java platform has become the de facto standard for network computing. However, the accolades have to be shared with the Java community,which has contributed immensely to the evolution of Java technology,' said George Paolini, vice president of JavaCommunity Development at Sun Microsystems. ``When we started designing the Java platform, the idea was simple --
anything written in the Java programming language should work everywhere, from the smallest devices on up to
supercomputers and data centers. The industry still believes that the value of the Java platform lies in its Write Once, Run Anywhere(TM) promise.'
Sun's Starfire server, the only hardware solution to make the list, earned top 10 honors for making ``believers out of many of those who had been skeptical about the scalability of multiprocessing servers.' Celebrating its third year on the market this month, the 64-CPU server outsells all of its competitors in the overall high-end and UNIX server markets, according to International Data Corporation's recently published Q3CY99 Server Tracker report.
``More and more companies, especially in industries such as finance, insurance, transportation, telecommunications and
retail, are consolidating applications onto single, large-capacity servers to lower their costs of ownership and ease systems management,' noted Steve Campbell, Sun's director of marketing for the Data Center and High-Performance Computing
Group.
The Starfire platform was recently bolstered with the addition of eight available Dynamic System Domains, bringing the total to 16, and advanced features such as Automated Dynamic Reconfiguration (ADR) and InterDomain Networking (IDN).
InformationWeek's ranking of the most important products of the decade can be found: informationweek.com.
About the Sun Enterprise 10000 Server
The mainframe-class Sun Enterprise 10000, or Starfire, server provides up to 16 Dynamic System Domains; Sun is the only UNIX platform vendor to offer this feature. The Starfire server enables customers to run the most demanding,
mission-critical, 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(TM) Operating Environment and can be clustered with up to four nodes for even greater availability. The 64-CPU Sun Enterprise 10000 server contains up to 64 GB of shared memory and can support more than 60 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,' has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc.(Nasdaq: SUNW - news) to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for
establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $12.4 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com.
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