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October 22, 2003
Article #11373
Volume 68, Issue 4
Section: News

 


 

Sun Scores Wins Over Three Months
One-dozen Highlighted from the Hundreds

Sun has chosen to highlight twelve of the hundreds of customers who have chosen Sun solutions over the past three months. The dozen includes:

  • China Ministry of Railways: Turned to Sun for assistance in building and deploying an application services platform for the company's three-way dispatching system.

  • EPL Inc.: Chose Sun FireTM V880 servers and Sun FireTM 280R servers, Sun RayTM appliances, and Sun StorEdgeTM 6320 systems to power Oracle9i Collaboration Suite applications.

  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): Chose the Sun Ray thin-client solution for its low cost to buy and manage, hot desking features, increased security and reduced energy requirements.

  • Hughes Network Systems: Selected Sun to supply computer systems and software for the network operations center requirements of its new SPACEWAY satellite system.

  • Lodgian: Worked with Sun to develop a high performing, highly available and scalable storage infrastructure.

  • Motorola (Polska): Turned to Sun for assistance in migrating and consolidating its data to a Sun StorEdgeTM 9970 system.

  • The Research Foundation of State University of New York: Turned to Sun Services and Sun Finance for help in consolidating its server and storage environments.

  • Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research: Sun helped to reduce the cost, training and work required to establish a research infrastructure

  • Swedbank: Looked to Sun for help with powering its Net Trading applications and test environment.

  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette: Recently turned to Sun for a low-cost system to incorporate into its compute farm.

  • University of New Brunswick: Recently implemented a high-performance x86 computing cluster. The solution was built on Sun Fire servers and SunSM Services.

  • World Book Inc.: Will use Sun's per-employee pricing model and run the Sun JavaTM Enterprise System on Sun Fire servers.

"For over a generation, we've delivered innovation that helps our customers achieve business objectives and gain competitive advantage. It's simple. We want to help our customers get the most out of their IT investments so they can focus on what matters to them -- running their business," said Mark Tolliver, chief strategy officer, Sun. "Our customers are with us for the long haul. And, in turn, we're committed to their long-term business needs. Thousands of the world's largest companies and government agencies count on Sun to help them make network computing simple and real." [...read more...]

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