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Excellent news: Gartner grades Sun as Overall Positive in a recent report - http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/sunmicrosystems/article3/article3.html
Highlights from the Vendor Rating:
What You Need to Know - Sun
Microsystems customers should feel more comfortable with their
infrastructures than they have since 2001, because of the company’s
improved market and financial position. The past year represents an
important turning point in Sun’s ambition to be known as an open-source
company.
On Sun’s overall strategy: “Sun is betting on
delivering volume-based solutions that will increase its market
presence and developer “mind share,” and set the stage for
next-generation deployments for which it and its partners will be the
primary contributors. Sun’s business model is more forward-thinking
than many of its competitors, but not without risk. Converting
free-of-charge software downloads, especially Solaris, into an ongoing
revenue stream has proved challenging. Gartner believes that Sun’s
forward-looking strategy is appropriate and can be a major competitive
differentiator.”
On executive leadership: “Sun continues to
strengthen its organization. Its executive management team is stable,
strong and comfortable working together. With the acquisition of MySQL,
it added to its strategic executive team strengths and has filled key
executive positions in global sales and services, and green IT
responsibility to complement a strong technical competency in hardware
and software.”
On CMT (Strong Positive): “Sun has pioneered the
market for dense, multicore processor designs, which it refers to as
“chip multithreading” (CMT). Its T1000 and T2000 servers, utilizing the
Niagara 1 processor, have significantly increased Sun’s penetration of
the 1- to 2-socket server market (approximately a $1 billion business).
Niagara 2 has been introduced, and a continuation of the road map
through 2009 is assured with its next-generation family, called
Victoria Falls, which was introduced earlier this year… Sun receives a
strong positive rating in this category due to the product’s
forward-looking design and philosophy, strong throughput, and reduced
space and power consumption.”
On Solaris (Strong Positive): “Solaris remains at
the center of Sun’s hardware strategy. With all of Sun’s server and
client platforms running Solaris, the operating system continues to
hold its market share lead in the Unix market. Sun is conscious of the
threat that Linux poses to Unix, and the Sun approach is to enable
ever-better Linux coexistence, so that Solaris effectively will become
a better Linux than Linux is itself.”
on Identity and Access Management (Strong
Positive): Through the integration of several acquisitions from 2003
through 2007, Sun has created an identity and access management (IAM)
portfolio that provides enterprises with a relatively effective answer
to their IAM requirements. Sun Java System Identity Manager and Access
Manager products are considered leaders in the IAM market.
Read the original article: http://brianherman.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/good-things-come-to-those-who-wait-sun-on-the-rise/
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