SUN Starfire on IntormationWeek's top 10 of most influential products

Palo Alto 02 Feb 00 In the Dec. 20-27, 1999 edition, InformationWeek, honored Sun Microsystems' Java platform and its high-end flagship Sun Enterprise 10000 Starfire server as among the top 10 most important and influential products of the last decade. Sun's Starfire serve was the only hardware solution to make the list.

The Java platform, noted for emerging as "the Web's favorite tool," topped the list. It was cited as the decade's top product for its "write-once-run-anywhere computing" capability. To date, more than two million copies of the Java 2 platform have been downloaded from Sun's web site, a testament to the current ubiquity of Java. >

Sun's Starfire server, the only hardware solution to make the list, earned top 10 honors for making "believers out of many of those who had been skeptical about the scalability of multiprocessing servers." Celebrating its third year on the market this month, the 64-CPU server outsells all of its competitors in the overall high-end and UNIX server markets, according to International Data Corporation's recently published Q3CY99 Server Tracker report.

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