Sun Gains Market Share for Fifth Straight Quarter According to Analyst Firm

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) saw its year-to-year total server revenue market share grow for the fifth straight quarter in Q107, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, which was released today.


Sun’s year-to-year total server factory revenue grew 6.3 percent. Sun is the No. 1 Unix server revenue vendor as customers continue to embrace the free and open Solaris operating system.

With the recent launch of its new SPARC Enterprise servers, co-developed with Fujitsu, which became available in Q207, Sun expects customer interest in its servers to continue to grow.

“We did well in a traditionally soft quarter for the company,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Sun Systems Group. “Our high-end UNIX server sales were particularly strong as customers turned to Solaris to help with virtualization and consolidation. And with the SPARC Enterprise servers now in the market, new Intel- and AMD-based products coming soon, and Niagara2 on the horizon we’re continuing to strengthen our product line.”



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