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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (128364)	2/27/2001 1:27:43 AM
From: Joseph Pareti	Respond to of 186894

OT Sun's clear focus and seamless strategy "Sun's clear focus and seamless strategy has propelled the company to the top rank," said Shahin Khan, vice president of product marketing at Sun. Sun's spin machine has propelled the company to a temprorary top rank where it won't stay long as industry standard solutions mature. The Sun Enterprise server family is the industry's only single, binary-compatible product line featuring a range of servers that scale from one to 64 processors -- providing customers with flexibility, investment protection and an unparalleled growth path. With availability as the key attribute, enterprises and service providers find Sun servers an ideal platform for the service driven network. In addition it provides free crashes thanks to the lack of ECC memory that yield a fabulous 98% availability (source : Gartner Group). The growth path is secured by UltraSparc III that is only 1.5 years late and sports a whopping 750MHz SUN NOW NO. 1 IN TOTAL SERVER MARKET REVENUE 02.23.01 COMMERCIAL NEWS HPCwire ============================================================================== Palo Alto, CA -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., announced Tuesday that in 2000 it overtook IBM to move into the top spot in the total U.S. server market. Sun posted 45 percent year-over-year growth to lead the U.S. market in total server sales (includes systems based on UNIX(R), Microsoft Windows NT and all other operating systems). IBM and HP both suffered declines of 10 and 12 percent respectively -- dropping IBM to No. 2 and HP to No. 5 -- according to the year-end 2000 report from the industry analyst firm Dataquest. "Sun's clear focus and seamless strategy has propelled the company to the top rank," said Shahin Khan, vice president of product marketing at Sun. "With HP and IBM, customers face a mish-mash of incompatible and confusing array of CPUs, OS's and architecture transitions. This data underscores the fact that customers recognize the value in our single, scalable, reliable and binary compatible line of Sun Enterprise(TM) and Netra(TM) servers running the robust Solaris(TM) Operating Environment -- and are chosing them to meet their full range of mission-critical computing needs." Highlights from Dataquest -- -- Where Sun in 2000 had a hit -- and I would call it a triple for them -- is in their new Netra servers -- Confusing, overlapping server offerings hurt Compaq Computer, HP and IBM -- Big Blue's mainframe revenue fell to $1.2 billion in 2000 from $2.2 billion a year earlier -- HP launched Superdome in September, but with concerns about tepid performance and other issues, Superdome failed to ignite server sales -- It's been tougher for HP to compete in the high end, because Sun has more functionality. When you start climbing up into that space, you want more availability features that HP doesn't deliver. About the Sun Server Family The Sun Enterprise server family is the industry's only single, binary-compatible product line featuring a range of servers that scale from one to 64 processors -- providing customers with flexibility, investment protection and an unparalleled growth path. With availability as the key attribute, enterprises and service providers find Sun servers an ideal platform for the service driven network. Designed for remote/branch offices and datacenter environments, these systems provide a robust infrastructure for a range of network services, applications, and backend databases. The Netra server family builds on the reliability and scalablity Sun systems are known for -- adding physical and computing features needed to operate in extreme environmental conditions. The carrier-grade line of systems is popular in the telco market. In addition, the small profile and rackability of many of the systems, make them ideal for service providers. 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 industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to dot-com their businesses. With $17.6 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries. Web site: sun.com