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Solaris Use Continues to Grow

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Sun Microsystems increased its revenue position with marketshare growth of 10.75% year-over-year and now holds second place with 18.44% marketshare. Furthermore, with just under 80,000 units shipped and $1.86 billion in revenue, Sun maintains a lead as the number one vendor in the UNIX market worldwide. This is according to the 2Q02 Worldwide Server Database by Gartner Dataquest,

According to the latest stats from Gartner Dataquest, Sun’s Solaris and UltraSPARC-based systems experienced much growth in revenue and the number units shipped during the second quarter.

Overall, Gartner Dataquest’s quarterly database shows that Sun’s Solaris Operating Environment and UltraSPARC-based systems experienced the highest level of revenue and shipment growth year-over-year of the top five IT vendors while most competing systems saw a decline. In the UNIX market, with 63% marketshare in shipments and 44% revenue share, Sun is clearly number one. Compared to the same quarter last year, Sun grew its marketshare in UNIX shipments by 32% while its three closest competitors lost share in double-digit increments. Sun also led the pack in year-over-year UNIX revenue marketshare, where it grew by 15.4%.

“Customers continue to vote for Sun as our SPARC/Solaris architecture gains at the expense of the competition across all operating environments,” said Shahin Khan, Chief Competitive Officer, Sun Microsystems. “Sun is leading in the commoditization of 64-bit computing and the recent addition of the 32-bit Sun LX50 server running Linux and Solaris enables Sun to serve a larger customer base.” These results are based on similarly positive marketshare results posted by Gartner Dataquest for the US, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Asia Pacific regions:

In the US, Sun gained revenue marketshare with a 13.5% increase from last year. Sun was also the only company of the top-five UNIX vendors to grow marketshare in revenue and shipments both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year. With more than $945 million, Sun is number one with 55.6% of the Unix marketshare in revenue. Sun’s number one position in the US extends to shipments where its 42,440 units shipped represent 68.4% of the marketshare.

Similarly positive growth was seen in EMEA where Sun grew its marketshare leadership position in the UNIX market by nearly 37% in shipments and over 10% in revenue year-over-year. With over 21,700 units shipped in EMEA in 2Q02, Sun has 60.61% marketshare in UNIX shipments and 37% revenue marketshare with over $519 million.

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