Building further momentum and widening its lead ahead of the competition, Sun continues to hold the number one position in the UNIX server market for the third quarter of calendar year 1998, according to new data from analyst firm International Data Corporation. IDC data indicate that Sun continues to be the number one UNIX server vendor, commanding 23 percent market share of UNIX server revenue and 25 percent market share of UNIX server shipments in Q3 CY98. The latest data provide evidence that the award-winning Sun Enterprise server family, running the robust Solaris Operating Environment software and paired with the family of Sun StorEdge disk arrays, is consistently winning and keeping satisfied customers who require highly scalable, available and reliable server solutions for the management of business-critical enterprise computing applications.

Sun continues to be one of the fastest growing server vendors in the industry, according to the latest IDC research. The company achieved nearly 40 percent higher revenue and shipments in Q3 CY98 than in the same period last year, and in the process outpaced its nearest rivals in both the UNIX and total (UNIX, Microsoft Windows NT and other platform) server markets. IDC identifies Sun as one of the fastest growing vendors in several important segments of the total server market for Q3 CY98, posting leading revenue and units increases in the high-end category (systems selling at $1 million and above), and fastest revenue increases in the midrange category (systems priced from $100,000 to $1 million). In the red-hot entry-level segment (systems under $100,000) of the total server market, Sun outpaced revenue and shipment growth rates posted by competitors Compaq/Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.

After finishing 1997 as the year-end leader in UNIX shipments, Sun proceeded to command top spots in a variety of server market categories in the first half of 1998, including first place in UNIX server revenue and shipments (Q2 CY98) and first place in total-market midrange shipments (Q2 CY98) (2). Now in Q3, Sun's quarter-over-quarter growth (Q3 CY98 versus Q3 CY97) has exceeded increases posted by nearest rivals Compaq/DEC, H-P and IBM. For instance, IDC reports that Sun has shipped 54 percent more UNIX servers than runner-up H-P in the year to date.

Sun's server momentum continues to accelerate in all key UNIX market categories, due to its comprehensive family of servers that range in size from workgroup to departmental to data center-level systems. Sun maintained its number one position in the UNIX entry-level market this quarter, shoring up 26 percent share of revenue and 25 percent share of units. On the other end of the spectrum, Sun also earned first place in the UNIX high-end category this quarter, posting 54 percent quarter-over-quarter growth in revenue and 120 percent growth in shipments. This growth has earned Sun a leading 40 percent revenue share and 63 percent units share of the critical high-end UNIX space. [...read more...]

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