Sun Leapfrogs HP to Number 1 Position With the Highest Total Workstation Market Revenue.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1998-- Dataquest Report Shows Sun 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). Shipments Exceed the Combined Total of All Other UNIX Market Revenue Dataquest, a leading IT/market intelligence firm, later this month will release a report(1) which reveals that 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. , Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) not only regained its number one position in workstation revenues for the second calendar quarter of 1998 (Q2/98), but also sold more workstations than all other UNIX(R) vendors combined. Sun attributes its position as the number one supplier of UNIX workstations in both units and revenue to the tremendous popularity of its new line of UltraSPARC(TM) workstations, including the Ultra(TM) 5, Ultra 10 and Ultra 60 workstations. The Ultra 5 and Ultra 10 workstations, introduced in January of this year, represent the company's most successful workstation line to date. Sun's workstations run the powerful, robust Solaris(TM) operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . "Power computing Not to be confused with the extant computer hardware company also called Power Computing. Power Computing was a short-lived manufacturer of Apple Macintosh-compatible computers. remains an important focus of our business," said Masood Jabbar, president of Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Dataquest's workstation sales results are a testimony to customers' confidence in Sun's ability to deliver systems that meet their demands for performance, reliability and scalability. Sun is proud of its leadership in technical computing." UNIX workstations are the preferred computing platform See platform. for engineers, graphics designers and scientists who demand powerful, reliable and scalable solutions. The Dataquest report confirms that Sun's workstations continue to be the platform of choice over Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, 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) and Digital Equipment in these mission-critical environments, further positioning the Solaris operating environment as one of the leading operating environments for users today. "Dataquest research confirms the continuing viability of the UNIX workstation market with unit shipments increasing for the last four quarters," said Peter ffoulkes, director and principal analyst for Dataquest's Advanced Desktops and Workstations Quarterly Statistics Worldwide program. "UNIX workstations can effectively compete across the entire spectrum of the workstation market, from low-end systems priced under $2,500, through the midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually to high-end multiprocessor Multiple processors. A multiprocessor machine uses two or more CPUs for routine processing. See multiprocessing. multiprocessor - parallel processing workstations whose capabilities still exceed those of Intel/Windows NT-based systems." Dataquest reports that for the total workstation market Sun(TM) workstations commanded 29.9 percent of the revenue. The analysis shows Sun's revenues exceeded its closest competitor, Hewlett-Packard, by $96.4 million and were more than three times that of its second-closest competitor, IBM(2). Sun workstations accounted for 25 percent of the units shipped for the entire workstation market. Sun unit sales unit sales Sales measured in terms of physical units rather than dollars. Unit sales data are often used by financial analysts when evaluating the health of a company. increased 15 percent over the last quarter and 31.7 percent over the same period last year. "Sun has remained committed to delivering the robustness, reliability and scalability of the Solaris operating environment to all technical computing customers while other vendors have split their product development focus among UNIX, Alpha and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. systems," said Ken Okin, vice president and general manager, Workstation Products Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Sun's leading technology, system architecture and long-standing commitment to this market means customers can count on getting the computing power they need without having to change architectures -- now and into the next millennium." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the report, UNIX workstations accounted for 66.5 percent of the total workstation units in Q2/98, indicating that they have maintained dominance in the midrange and high-end technical and creative computing Creative Computing was one of the earliest magazines covering the microcomputer revolution. Published from 1974 until 1985, Creative Computing covered the whole spectrum of hobbyist/home/personal computing in a more accessible format than the rather markets. In these markets, Sun's line of Ultra workstations far surpassed the competition, shipping nearly four times the number of units than the second-ranked vendor, Hewlett-Packard(3). The report shows that Sun had total UNIX workstation shipments of 89,118 compared with Hewlett-Packard's 23,496 units shipped. Sun earned 45.1 percent of all UNIX workstation market revenues(4). Hewlett-Packard and Silicon Graphics, the companies with the next-highest percentages, accounted for 36.5 percent of UNIX workstation market revenues combined. For more information on Sun's workstation offerings please visit the company's Web site at http://sun.com. Additional information on this market is available in Dataquest's upcoming Market Statistics report, Advanced Desktops and Workstations Quarterly Statistics Q2/98. Please visit the company's Web site at http://www.dataquest.com. About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(TM)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9.5 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com. -0-
1) The report referenced is Dataquest's Advanced Desktop and
Workstations Quarterly Statistics Q298, WQSR-WW-MS-98Q2.
2) Worldwide Workstation Revenue Q2/98 ($ in millions): Sun
Microsystems 930.2, Hewlett-Packard 833.8, IBM 305.4, Digital
Equipment 282.5, Silicon Graphics 254.5, Other Workstation
vendors 220.2, Dell 125.2, Compaq 102.7, Intergraph 65.8, Total
Workstation Market 3,110.9.
3) UNIX Workstation Shipments by Vendor Q2/98 (units/share percent):
Sun Microsystems 89,118/55.4, Hewlett-Packard 23,496/14.6,
Silicon Graphics 20,067/12.5, Other Workstation Vendors
11,651/7.2, IBM 10,496/6.5, Digital Equipment 5,925/3.7, Total
UNIX Workstation Market 160,754.
4) UNIX Workstation Revenue Shipments by Vendor Q2/98 ($ in
millions/share percent): Sun Microsystems 930.2/45.1,
Hewlett-Packard 499.2/24.2, Silicon Graphics 254.6/12.3, Other
Workstation Vendors 150.8/7.3, IBM 125/6.1, Digital Equipment
102.1/4.9, Total Workstation Market 2,062.7.
-0- Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Ultra, Solaris and "The Network is the Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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. and other countries. All SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International See SPARC. , Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are available on the Internet via the World Wide Web at http://sun.com. CONTACT: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Joanne Sperans Hartzell, 650/786-5404 joanne.hartzell@sun.com or Thomas Associates, Inc. for Sun Ingrid Kambe, 650/596-2700 ingrid@thomaspr.com |
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