According to IDC Q2CY01 Server Tracker report released today, Sun’s total server shipments including all operating systems increased 5.5 percent from Q1 to Q2, more than any other top five server vendor.
In addition, Sun maintained its crown as the leader of UNIX shipments for the 17th consecutive quarter. Sun was also number one in UNIX server revenue with 35 percent marketshare, topping this category for 10 consecutive quarters.
This is proof that Sun’s focused and seamless strategy delivers superior total cost of ownership for customers who choose and continue to choose the reliability of the SPARC[tm] platform, Solaris[tm] Operating Environment and Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) architecture for the datacenter, said Shahin Khan, chief competitive officer for Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems. Even in light of IBM’s recent announcement of a new midrange UNIX server, they still have not gotten it right. Sun beat IBM 4 to 1 in shipments.
The IDC report reinforces Sun’s leading position in the UNIX server market. Sun’s award-winning servers, including the new Sun Fire line, provide a single interoperable computing platform that seamlessly integrates into heterogeneous environments.
The Numbers Speak for Themselves – Sun is number one in entry-level UNIX shipments out shipping number two IBM by a margin of two and a half to one – Sun jumped from third to first place in midrange UNIX server revenue, leaping past IBM and HP sequentially in Q1 to Q2 – Sun is number one in UNIX midrange server shipments, beating out HP and shipping more than IBM by four to one – Sun topped the high-end UNIX market shipments with a 33 percent growth sequentially, and out shipped HP and IBM by nearly four to one and six to one respectively.
SOURCE: COMPANY PRESS RELEASE
