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To: Dale J. who wrote (2535)	8/7/1998 6:10:00 AM
From: Rauf A. Adil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4722

Get it straight. SUN is the leader in HP. Read the complete IDC report, not the bits and bytes grabbed from it and presented by its stupid management team. Again, SUN has shipped THE LARGEST NUMBER of UNIX servers in 1997. ----------------------------------------------------- SUN SURGES AHEAD IN SERVER MARKET, COMMANDS FIRST PLACE FOR TOTAL UNIX SERVER SHIPMENTS Sun Tops Three Server Market Categories and Posts 75 Percent Growth Rate for Shipments, According to International Data Corporation PALO ALTO, CA - July 27, 1998 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. has reached a major milestone, capturing UNIXr server market leadership by outranking all competitors in UNIX server shipments for 1997, according to new data released by International Data Corporation (IDC). IDC reports Sun jumped from number three to number one in the UNIX server market for total units shipped, in the process dethroning the tied leaders from the previous year, IBM and Hewlett-Packard (H-P). Further illustrating Sun's explosive growth in the server market, the company achieved a 75 percent year-over-year increase in total server shipments, according to IDC. Sun's momentum in this market roundly outpaced total unit shipment growth by competitors IBM (27 percent), H-P (40 percent) and Compaq (45 percent) for calendar year 1997 (CY97). Overall, Sun's UNIX server market factory revenue increased 58 percent in CY97. According to IDC, Sun ranked third in total server market factory revenue with an 18.6 percent market share, beating all Windows NT-based and UNIX competitors other than IBM and H-P. Sun earned first place in two other key market segments identified by IDC, topping the list for unit shipments in both the UNIX entry market (systems priced at less than $100,000) and the UNIX midrange market (systems from $100,000 to $1,000,000). This translates to a 79 percent increase in UNIX entry unit shipments and a 50 percent increase in UNIX midrange unit shipments for the company over the previous year. In its first year competing in the UNIX high-end market (systems priced above $1,000,000), Sun ranked third in high-end unit shipments, outpacing ensconced high-end systems vendors Silicon Graphics Inc. (fourth place) and IBM (fifth place), according to IDC. "Sun's aggressive server strategy has propelled the company up the ranks, and the strength of this strategy is today substantiated by the IDC numbers," said John Shoemaker, vice president and general manager, Sun Enterprise Desktop and Server Systems. "Our commitment to installing and servicing best price/performance systems in every major industry has led Fortune 1000 powerhouses to turn to Sun because we provide the best server solutions for their mission-critical needs." In 1997, Sun executed a dual attack that altered both ends of the server spectrum, first by redefining the high end with the release of the mainframe-class SunTM EnterpriseTM 10000 (also known as StarfireTM) server, which has received large market acceptance. The Starfire system broke new ground by being the first UNIX server to offer mainframe-like dynamic system domains. Currently offering an industry-leading maximum of eight domains, the Starfire system allows network managers to partition and dynamically reconfigure system components into separate domains, thereby optimizing resource allocation and workload flexibility. In the same year, Sun drove into the low end and successfully shook up the Windows NT-based camp by introducing the power-packed Sun Enterprise 450 workgroup server. "Sun has made incredible strides in enterprise computing over the past few years, and really caught competitors by surprise in 1997 with its success selling the enterprise server line to large commercial sites and corporate workgroups alike," said Jay Bretzmann, vice president of worldwide systems research at IDC. "We believe Sun is likely to maintain this momentum in 1998 and will continue to gain share at the expense of its competitors." About the Sun Enterprise Server Family The Sun Enterprise server family is a single, binary-compatible product line featuring nine servers that range from one to 64 processors and are designed for workgroup, departmental and data center computing environments. In addition to the high-end Starfire and entry-level Sun Enterprise 450 workgroup servers announced last year, Sun this year launched a new line of midrange servers. The powerful Sun Enterprise 3500-6500 midrange servers are the first in their class to offer data center-level RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability) capabilities with dynamic reconfiguration and alternate pathing for online repair and configuration, which minimize both planned and unplanned downtime.