IBM Reaches Milestone With Shipment of 1,000th RS/6000 S80 Server; S80 Accelerates Past Sun E10000 to become the Fastest Selling; High-end UNIX System Ever.Business/Technology Editors SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2000 IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) today announced that it has reached a new milestone in server sales with the shipment of the 1,000th RS/6000 S80 server, only four months after introducing the product. The ultra-powerful IBM system is The IBM System i (formerly known as iSeries, AS/400, and Application System/400) is a minicomputer platform produced by IBM. It was officially introduced as the AS/400 in 1988. now the fastest-selling high-end UNIX server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. in history. The record-breaking sales of the IBM RS/6000 S80 are in stark contrast with the initial sales compiled by Sun Microsystem's high-end UNIX server, the E10000, after its introduction. It took Sun two years to sell 1,000 E10000's, a sales figure that the IBM RS/6000 S80 reached after only four months on the market.(a) "Customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to dot.com start-ups are choosing the S80 to power a wide variety of mission-critical e-business applications," said Rod Adkins, general manager, IBM Web Server Unit. "The overwhelming reception to the RS/6000 S80 is no fluke fluke, parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. Instead of the cilia, external sense organs, and epidermis of the free-living flatworms, adult flukes have sucking disks with which they cling to their hosts and an external cuticle that . Customers know that it provides unparalleled performance, scalability and reliability at a price far below comparable offerings from Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. ." dot.coms Get Big With the S80 The 1,000th S80 was delivered recently to Works.com, an Internet business products purchasing service. The company purchased two RS/6000 S80's to power its Web site, www.works.com, which provides small and medium-sized businesses with discounts and fast delivery on over 20,000 business products. "We selected the RS/6000 S80 after an intensive search for a highly scalable and reliable server platform that could deliver the raw computing power we needed," said Roy Kipp, co-founder and chief technology officer of Works.com. "We evaluated other solutions, but they could not compete with IBM's combination of performance, price and excellent onsite technical support. The S80 provides us dramatic gains in scalability, manageability and overall computing capacity." The two RS/6000 S80 servers running IBM's UNIX operating system Noun 1. UNIX operating system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services , AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , will be the centerpiece of Works.com's Internet operations. The servers will support Works.com's rapidly expanding base of customers who use the site to automate and manage their purchasing of computer accessories and peripherals, software, office supplies Office supplies is the generic term that refers to all supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, from private citizens to governments, who works with the collection, refinement, and output of information (colloquially referred to as "paper work"). , furniture, breakroom products and janitorial supplies. Works.com customers also have access to Fortune 100 volume discounts through the company's Cooperative Buying Program, which can help them reduce their monthly supply bills by up to 30 percent. "With our tremendous customer growth, new partnerships and merchants, and expanded service offerings, Works.com has clearly emerged as the leading Internet business purchasing service," said Martin Neath Neath (nēth), Welsh Castell-nedd, town (1981 pop. 48,687), Neath Port Talbot, S Wales, on the Neath River. Neath is both a market and an industrial town. Metallurgy and a growing petrochemical industry are important. , Works.com president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "The addition of the IBM RS/6000 S80 servers marks another significant milestone for the company. It gives us the industrial strength, robust capacity and performance capabilities we need to expand at an even faster pace, while continuing to deliver the superior quality and service our customers have come to expect." Industry's Most Decorated Server IBM also announced today that the RS/6000 S80 is now the most decorated performer in the history of industry performance benchmarks - holding more of the top spots at one time than any other server. The list includes: RS/6000 S80 Benchmark No. 1's: -- TPC-C Single System (18% faster than No. 2 benchmark held by SUN E10000; 50% better price/performance) -- SAP R/3 (15% faster than the No. 2 benchmark held by SUN E10000) -- SAP R/2 (21% faster than the No. 2 benchmark held by SUN E10000) -- BaanERP Client/Server BRU's (62% faster than SUN E10000 with Baan IV) -- BaanERP Host BRU's (39% faster than the No. 2 benchmark held by SUN E10000 with Baan IV) -- SPECweb96 (58% faster than the No. 2 benchmark held by HP N Series) -- Notes Bench Mail Users (100% faster than No. 2 benchmark held by IBM RS/6000 S70 Advanced) -- Java VolanoMark Loopback Test (34% faster than No. 2 benchmark held by SUN E6500) -- SPECsfsv2 (26% faster than No. 2 benchmark held by SUN E6500) -- SPECsfsv3 (25% faster than No. 2 benchmark held by SUN E6500) In head-to-head comparisons versus the Sun E10000, the IBM RS/6000 S80 equipped with up to 24 copper-based microprocessors wins the overwhelming majority of performance benchmarks, far exceeding the performance of a more expensive Sun E10000 using up to 64 microprocessors. The price/performance of an RS/6000 S80 with 24 microprocessors and 64 GB of memory is about 50 percent better than an Sun E10000 with 64 microprocessors and 64 gigabytes (GB).(b) For more information on the S80's record-setting benchmark performance, see: http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/features/2000/Feb/s80.html Award-winning Performance The IBM RS/6000 S80 recently received two prestigious industry awards for exceptional server performance. InfoWorld named the S80 as its Network Hardware Product of the Year for 1999, citing the S80's "amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. performance and reliability at a price point not much more than high-end Wintel servers." The S80 was also the choice of Datamation magazine's readers for 1999 Product of the Year in the category of Servers/Mainframes, earning top honors over competing products from Sun Microsystems and HP. About Works.com Works.com is an Internet business products purchasing service that automates the purchasing process Purchasing Purchasing is the formal process of buying goods and services. The Purchasing Process can vary from one organization to another but there are some key elements that are common throughout The process usually starts with a 'Demand' or requirements and gives small and midsize businesses volume purchasing power Purchasing Power 1. The value of a currency expressed in terms of the amount of goods or services that one unit of money can buy. Purchasing power is important because, all else being equal, inflation decreases the amount of goods or services you'd be able to purchase. 2. . With Works.com, companies can save time and money by automating and streamlining their purchasing process -- from purchase request and approval to ordering, tracking, and reporting. Works.com's national merchant network offers volume discounts and fast delivery of 20,000 business products. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Additional information: www.works.com About IBM RS/6000 More than 1,000,000 IBM RS/6000 systems have been shipped to over 125,000 commercial and technical customers around the world. The RS/6000 family of computers feature IBM RISC-based microprocessors and run AIX, IBM's UNIX operating system. RS/6000 delivers the industry's most complete UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). offerings by combining applications with hardware, software, service and support -- a combination that yields new levels of high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , scalability, system management, performance, and Deep Computing capabilities. Additional information: www.ibm.com/servers or www.rs6000.ibm.com (a) IDC Quarterly Server Tracking Report through 3Q 99. (b) Based on TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. single system benchmark results. See www.tpc.org. IBM, RS/6000, SP and AIX are registered trademarks or trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , other countries, or both. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Limited. |
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