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What is Sun's server portfolio all about?
The Sun server portfolio of products can be broadly classified under two
domains, first are the ones that run SPARC V9 architecture and second are those
which are based on the AMD Opteron 64 bit processor, which run Windows, Linux
and Solaris, etc. We have recently come out with a revolutionary chip design
called CMT and the processor is called ULTRASPARC T1. We have series of servers
emerging on the T1 processor. This is a unique product in the industry, as
normally one would associate multi-core processors to have two cores. This T1
processor has eight cores and each core executing four simultaneous threads, so
technically its 32-blade server. The T1 processor is three quarters old and is a
significant part of our product strategy.
What kind of server market share do you have?
According to the IDC, in Q2 2006 Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Sun is
now number three in total server revenue, surpassing Dell. In worldwide UNIX
revenue, Sun now accounts for more than half of UNIX server shipments. Sun's
year-to-year UNIX revenue was up 11.8% and we also continued to achieve
significant growth in its x64 (x86, 64-bit) server line. I think that we are in
the top five among the x86 server players in the market.
What would be your focus areas going forward?
We will continue to invest and focus on the ULTRASPARC 4+ processor features
plus the CMT strategy based on the T1 processor. We will continue to innovate on
the processor and the operating systems level. There are several new features on
Solaris 10 that we have recently announced that add significant value to the
customer as well as the application vendors who build applications on top of it.
So we would continue to take the price performance and operational cost
leadership as far as our high-end server is concerned. So we would drive that
strategy very aggressively.
Pragati Simlote
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