Sun grows position in worldwide server market as undisputed UNIX server leader in Q203, and gains share in overall server market.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) ) has announced that the company grew its worldwide 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. leadership position in Q203, and increased its share of the overall worldwide server market (including servers running all types of operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. ), 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. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker (1), which was released recently. Sun's UNIX server revenues accounted for 33 percent of all UNIX server factory revenues during the second quarter, ended June 30, 2003. In addition, Sun gained 1.6 points of market share and leads its nearest competitor, HP, in terms of UNIX server factory revenue during Q203. Significantly, Sun increased its share in the overall server market, holding a 13.5 percent share of worldwide factory revenues for servers, including servers running all types of operating systems, compared with a 12.8 percent share of the overall server market in the previous quarter, Q103. "With these share gains customers have sent a clear signal that the innovation, choice and value Sun delivers matters to them," said Mark Tolliver, chief strategy officer and executive vice president for marketing & strategy, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "In the last quarter we continued to deliver servers with superior price/performance based on industry-leading 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 and Solaris. We also offered more choice to our customers with systems based on Solaris for x86, Linux, and x86. This strategy is clearly the one customers want as Sun increased share in the 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). market and across all servers running all types of operating systems." "At Sun Network, Sept 16 through Sept 18, 2003, you will see us make a series of breakthrough announcements that will further our competitive edge while dramatically reducing our customers' cost and complexity," added Tolliver. The SunNetwork 2003 Conference and Pavilion is the only conference 100 percent dedicated to showcasing end-to-end solutions from Sun and our iForce partners. SunNetwork 2003 will provide information and insights through more than 200 education and technical sessions about products and innovations designed to reduce the cost and complexity of network computing.% |
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