Sun leads in UK server marketPalo Alto 10 May 2001 Sun is No. 1 in the United States in Total Server Revenue, No. 2 worldwide according to Gartner Dataquest, SUN did announce. In 2000, Sun surpassed IBM in total server revenue in the United Kingdom and grew faster than any other major server company in Western Europe.
In the United Kingdom, Sun posted 52 percent
growth year-over-year in total server market
revenue (which includes systems based on
UNIX Microsoft Windows NT, MVS mainframe
and all other operating systems).
Sun also grew faster than its competitors in
Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, and
Switzerland. In 2000, Sun grew 35, 46, 37,
58, 60 percent respectively year-over-year.
When looking at all of Western Europe, Sun
grew 44 percent over that same period.
Littlewoods, Britain's largest private
company and one of Europe's top retailers,
chose runs on Sun Enterprise 10000
server.
"The main reason we chose Sun was that we had
plans to grow the business substantially and
we wanted a platform which would allow us to
do that," said David Hallett, Group IT
Director at Littlewoods. "You get the
feeling that you're in the hands of the
experts. If I don't have that feeling, I get
worried. Having it helps me to sleep at
night."
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