Sun sells a lot of serversPalo Alto 01 June 2001 Sun has recently secured major contracts with leading U.S. and international corporations. Leader in the U.S. Unix market, Sun Microsystems is ranking No. 2 worldwide in server revenues for the first quarter of 2001, and beating out rivals IBM and HP for the top spot in the U.K., Indian and ASEAN markets, according to Gartner Group and IDC Research, respectively.
Established in 1847, the Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com) is one of the nation's largest newspapers and the Midwest's most widely read paper. To better serve the growing needs of its readers and advertisers, the Chicago Tribune selected Sun Microsystems over IBM and Compaq to provide the newspaper with a unified hardware platform to reliably support its applications and minimize costs. Sun Enterprise 10000 servers, Sun StorEdge A5200 Arrays and the Solaris Operating Environment were selected based on their superior performance, reliability and scalability.
Covisint (http://www.covisint.com) was founded in 2000 by DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Renault, Oracle and CommerceOne to provide the global automotive industry with leading collaborative product development, procurement and supply chain tools. Covisint chose Sun to power its web, application and database servers at data centers in the United States and Europe because of Sun's high availability, massive scalability, and commitment to an open standards environment.
Littlewoods (http://www.littlewoods.co.uk), Britain's largest private company and one of Europe's top retailers, chose Sun to support new growth plans through the consolidation of its legacy infrastructure of Bull, IBM RS6000, HP and Sequent systems onto a single platform network. The Sun platform was selected due to the superior flexibility and scalability of Sun hardware, and to the ability of the Sun Enterprise 10000 server to handle several domains on the same system.
TRW (http://www.trw.com) has led the initiative as the prime contractor by selecting industry technology partners, including Sun Microsystems, to build the technology solution for the CCS-C. Sun Microsystems is providing various mid-range enterprise servers and UltraSPARC workstations. The Sun Microsystems hardware will perform data collection, storage and calculation capabilities that are instrumental in safely tracking, monitoring and positioning satellites controlled by the CCS-C.
Visa (http://www.visa.com) a worldwide leader in the financial services sector, turned to Sun to help it build a highly available and secure environment for its new, mission-critical electronic payment system, Visa Direct Exchange.A combination of high-endSun Enterprise 6500, 420R and 450 servers the Solaris Operating Environment, Sun StorEdge D1000 disk arrays, Sun Cluster 2.2 software, and Java technology will enable Visa Direct Exchange to scale rapidly, handling from 800 payment messages per day to an expected 10,000 messages per second in two years.
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