During the second quarter of calendar year 2001, Sun was the only vendor to grow UNIXR marketshare. According to IDC Q2CY01 Server Tracker report, 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. IBM, HP, Compaq, and Dell declined sequentially from the first quarter 2001 to second quarter 2001.

This is the seventeenth consecutive quarter that Sun maintained its leadership in UNIX shipments. Sun was also number one in UNIX server revenue with 35 percent marketshare, topping this category for 10 consecutive quarters.

The IDC report reinforces Sun's leading position in the UNIX server market. Sun's award-winning servers, including the new Sun FireTM server line, provide a single interoperable computing platform that seamlessly integrates into heterogeneous environments. The Sun EnterpriseTM and Sun Fire server family is the industry's only single, binary-compatible product line featuring a range of servers that scale from one to 64 processors--providing customers with flexibility, investment protection and an unparalleled growth path. [...read more...]

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