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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (161971)	3/13/2002 12:15:04 AM
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IBM, Unisys eye Sun's market with new Intel servers SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp.(NYSE:IBM - news) and Unisys Corp.(NYSE:UIS - news) announced this week new server computers that aim to drive Intel Corp.(NasdaqNM:INTC - news) chips and the Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) operating systems into more demanding markets. ADVERTISEMENT Intel and Microsoft, best known as the team behind personal computers, have not made much of a dent in the high-end market dominated by Unix systems, although they have gained popularity at the edge of the high-end, where Sun Microsystems Inc.(NasdaqNM:SUNW - news), IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co.(NYSE:HWP - news) are kings. Unisys on Tuesday extended its line of ES7000 servers that can hold up to 32 processors to handle the upgraded 32-bit Xeon processor from Intel. The new server is the ES7000/200. IBM, which says demand is low for machines with 32 chips, on Wednesday introduced the eServer x440 which can hold up to 16 Xeon processors, expandable in 4-processor units. Both companies clearly aim to win market share from Sun, which is successfully extending its systems using 64-bit chips running the Unix operating system further downscale, most recently with its v880. Unisys and IBM said they had surrounded the commodity chips with sophisticated systems and software, architectures which distinguishes the high-end Intel-based machines from personal computers, which all have essentially the same parts and design. ``What this marks is a milestone of the maturity of Intel servers in the database space,'' Bill Zeitler, general manager of IBM's server group, said in an interview, adding that IBM was targeting Sun. However, he said, customers would chiefly use the machines to consolidate smaller servers that run applications like e-mail and web hosting. IBM eventually would expand the system with machines holding 32 and 64 processors. Both Unisys and IBM machines can handle Intel's 64-bit chips, although demand for them has been tepid so far.