IDC Reports on Server
Market Growth
SANTA
CLARA, Calif - May 23, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. saw its
year-to-year total server revenue market share grow for the 5th straight
quarter in Q107, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server
Tracker, which was released today.
Sun is the #1 Unix server revenue vendor.
Editor's note:-
IDC's own
press release also includes the following information.
Overall
factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 4.9% year over year to $12.4
billion in the first quarter of 2007. The top 5 server companies were:-
(1)
- HP - 29.2% market share,
8.4% revenue growth
(2) - IBM
- 28.9% market share, 8.1% revenue growth
(3) -
Sun - 10.9% market share,
6.3% revenue growth
(4) - Dell
- 10.9% market share, 1.7% revenue growth
(5) -
Fujitsu - 6.3%
market share, 5.6% revenue decline
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History of the SPARC Notebook Market
Editor:- May 16,
2007 - SPARC Product Directory published a new article today on the SPARC
Notebook Market.
There have been many twists and turns in this
segment of the market in the 15 years since the first SPARCbook appeared from
Tadpole Technology.
How's OpenSparc Doing?
Editor:-
May 15, 2007 - an article published today on ZDNet discusses how well
Sun's OpenSparc efforts are going.
In recent years
whenever I've spoken to oems who want to come into the SPARC market for the
first time I make sure they've read my
Sun Compatible OEMs
Report which is the history of what happened to the first few generations of
SPARC chipmakers and SPARC server oems.
A cynic might say "Too
much Sun can
leave you burned." But many SPARC compatible oems failed for reasons that
had nothing directly to do with Sun.
- OpenSPARC
- Sun's newest open sparc ORG (since 2005)
UMC to Make Sun's SPARC Chips?
editor:-
May 8, 2007 - an article today in Electronics Supply & Manufacturing
speculates that Sun's SPARC chips may soon be manufactured by UMC
in addition to erstwhile TI.
The first SPARC CPU chip, in
1987, was implemented in a Fujitsu
20k-gate, 1.3-micron CMOS gate array.
The 2nd implementation was
a full-custom 0.8-micron design from
Cypress Semiconductor
and operated at 33 MHz and 20 MIPS.
Apart from a brief flirtation with
Ross Technology's
HyperSPARC chips in the mid 1990s, Sun has mostly had its SPARC chips made by
TI. ...UMC profile,
...Texas Instruments profile
Real-Time SPARC Apps on Intel Emulator Costs Under $900 /
Processor
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif -
May 8, 2007 - Transitive Corp today announced QuickTransit its
migration solution for Solaris SPARC to Solaris x86.
For the first time, enterprise customers deploying the Solaris OS can
run the extensive selection of commercial and in-house Solaris-based
applications available on SPARC processors, not just on new SPARC-based
platforms but also on industry standard Solaris x86-based systems without
modification to their source code or binaries, with full functionality, high
performance, and in a way that is completely transparent to end-users and system
administrators.
A beta release of QuickTransit for SPARC to x86 will be available in
July 2007. It will be priced at $875 per populated processor socket as a 1-year
subscription (including customer support).
Solaris
Migration
What If? - Solaris were released Under
GPL
Editor:-
May 1, 2007 - an article published yesterday in Sci-Tech-Today.com
analyzes what would happen if Sun were to release Solaris under GPL.
Some
argue that it could boost Sun's revenue, others say it's too late - and would
make no difference. ...read
the article | |
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IDC Reports on
Server Market Growth
History of the SPARC Notebook Market
How's
OpenSparc Doing?
UMC to Make Sun's SPARC Chips
Real-Time SPARC
Apps on Intel Emulator Costs Under $900 / Processor
What If? -
Solaris were released Under GPL
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applications - such as RAID
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It was
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today's devices?
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bigger capacity (160G in 2.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could
actually be configured in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM
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scaled up in an array - starts to look interesting. ...read the article,
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