Sun Microsystems bright future

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In a year of comebacks for once-struggling Sun Microsystems, the company’s server revenue grew 15 percent in 2006, which jolted the company into a tie for third place among the top five vendors, according to the latest IDC study.
The survey, which IDC released on Feb. 26, showed Sun increasing its server revenue 24.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006 compared with the same time the previous year. That quarter helped Sun collect $5.6 billion in server revenue for the whole year, which represented 10.8 percent of the marketplace.
In addition, the IDC report showed that Hewlett-Packard overtook IBM for the No. 1 spot in the blade market during the fourth quarter of 2006. However, for the year, IBM remained in the top spot with 40 percent of the blade market’s revenue compared with 37.4 percent for HP.

Very cool, competition does bring new possibilities to the customer, whether it’s Sun, IBM, or HP, the promotion of the blades as an infrastructure platform whether for consolidation or virtualization or as grid engines for a blade calculation farm.

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