Of the top 5 vendors, Sun was the only one to gain market share in overall server
revenue this quarter, gaining 1.5 points year-over-year, while IBM declined
0.5 points in share.
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"Sun'scomeback began early last year, bolstered by growth of its small but fast-growing
line of Intel-compatible servers, powered by chips from Advanced Micro Devices.
Last year Sun also launched servers that use its own power-sipping T1 family
of chips," said Investor's Business Daily's Brian Womack.
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"[IDC Analyst Jed] Scaramella attributed Sun's growth to its improving financial
picture during the second half of 2006, its 'Try and Buy' program,
which helps get its hardware into the data center, and the growing use of
its Solaris OS. In 2007, Sun entered into a new agreement with Intel that
analysts say should help the company continue its growth," said eWeek's
Scott Ferguson.
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Sun is putting its technology and belief in open source to work for a new cause - to build a collaborative website for architects who want to use design to improve living and housing standards around the world. The site is the Open Architecture Network, and the idea for it came from Cameron Sinclair, Executive Director and co-founder of Architecture for Humanity.
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The first OpenSPARC Center of Excellence was established at the University of California, Santa Cruz by Sun. This new center will focus on the OpenSPARC initiative, a true "open-source" approach to high-speed microprocessor technology. The Center of Excellence establishes a collaborative partnership between Sun and UCSC faculty who are working with the OpenSPARC community.
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When the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab installed 180 Sun Fire X2100 servers running a Red Hat-based OS kernel, they tested them against their old Datel AMD Athlon-based server cluster and found an increase in performance by the Sun servers that saved the scientists hours of time.
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Project Darkstar, Sun's version of the online game server platform written entirely in Java technology, made its debut at the recent 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, where Sun also announced the opening of registration for the Darkstar Playground, which will enable developers to create a wide variety of games that can be provisioned through a single server platform.
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The data storage company Imation has signed a distribution agreement with Sun to be the worldwide media distributor of Sun-branded tape media for entry-level, mid-range and datacenter environments.
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