Starfire leads high-endPalo Alto 17 Apr 00 The IDC report - one of the industry's standard measurement tools for the server market -- also concluded that Sun singed its competitors in high-end Unix server revenue. Led by the acclaimed Sun Enterprise 10000 server (Starfire), Sun generated revenue of $344 million. That is nearly double the high-end Unix server revenue of IBM, which tallied $182 million on 59 unit shipments, and more than triple HP's $107 million on 89 unit shipments. IDC classifies high-end servers as those costing $1 million or more. "This puts a big, bold exclamation point on another extraordinary year for our Starfire server business," stated John Shoemaker, vice president and general manager of Sun's server and workstation systems business units. "What's evident is that the clarity of our road map, the continuity of our operating system strategy, the integrity of our products and the unflagging support of the ISV community give us a tremendous advantage in sales situations. More importantly, the customer understands that the path of least disruption runs through Sun." The system hosts more than 12,700 applications for the Solaris Operating Environment software and can be clustered with up to four nodes for even greater uptime. The Sun Enterprise 10000 server contains up to 64 GB of shared memory and can support more than 20 TB of storage to confidently handle extreme data warehousing situations.
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