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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don England who wrote (31203)	4/27/2000 9:06:00 AM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Dear Don, the success of the Starfire is one reason you should remain invested in Sun. Mephisto " There is no denying that the final quarter of calendar year 1999 was a real scorcher for Sun Microsystems' high-end UNIX© 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 thecoveted 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. 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