IBM claims its RS/6000 is outselling the SUN StarfireSomers 10 Mar 00 The main trend revealed by the IDC report is just how rapidly IBM has redefined the market for high-end UNIX servers, which are typically used to power mission-critical data-intensive applications. While IDC classifies the RS/6000 S80 as a mid-range server because of its low price, it nevertheless outperforms the more expensive Sun E10000, which is classified as high-end because it costs more. The IDC report also highlights the dramatic impact that IBM technology is now having on the UNIX server marketplace. The RS/6000 S80 is equipped with revolutionary IBM copper-based microprocessors that have fueled performance breakthroughs and helped it to surpass the Sun E10000 as the industry's most powerful UNIX server, based on TPC benchmarks While the IDC 1999 fourth quarter numbers for the S80 are impressive, IBM's sales reveal that customer response to the S80 continues to grow in the new year. As of mid-January, more than one thousand S80's had been sold in the product's first four months on the market, making it the fastest selling high-performance UNIX server in history. It took Sun two years to sell as many of its comparable product, the E10000. In head-to-head comparisons versus the Sun E10000, the 64-bit RS/6000 S80 equipped with up to 24 copper-based microprocessors wins the overwhelming majority of performance benchmarks, far exceeding the performance of a more costly E10000 using up to 64 microprocessors. The price/performance of an RS/6000 S80 with 24 microprocessors and 64 GB of memory is about 50 percent better than an Sun E10000 with 64 microprocessors and 64 gigabytes (GB) on TPC
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