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In celebration of its 25-year
anniversary, Sun Microsystems is offering exciting deals
on its most popular and innovative products to help customers quickly
and securely build, develop and deploy network computing solutions. For
two weeks starting today, limited quantities of select award-winning
products will be available at discounts of up to 65 percent as an
anniversary gift to customers in the U.S. and U.K. Sale offerings
include UltraSPARC and industry-standard Sun Fire servers, Sun
StorageTek systems, services and software.
Up to 65 Percent Discount on Sun's Top-of-the-Line Systems, Storage, Services and Software In celebration of its 25-year
anniversary, Sun Microsystems is offering exciting deals
on its most popular and innovative products to help customers quickly
and securely build, develop and deploy network computing solutions. For
two weeks starting today, limited quantities of select award-winning
products will be available at discounts of up to 65 percent as an
anniversary gift to customers in the U.S. and U.K. Sale offerings
include UltraSPARC and industry-standard Sun Fire servers, Sun
StorageTek systems, services and software.
"Over the past 25 years, thousands of customers have built their
businesses on Sun because of our exemplary value and investment
protection," said Marsha Cavanagh, vice president of Lifecycle
Marketing at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "On our 25th anniversary, we're
further lowering the barriers to entry by featuring great promotional
prices on some of our hottest products, offering them online where many
of our customers prefer to purchase. In addition to rewarding our loyal
customers, we want to introduce the next generation of companies to the
innovation that has made Sun a leader in network computing."
Sun technologiesoffering customers excellent value as well as
processor platform and Operating System (OS) choicewill be available
at unprecedented promotional prices online at http://www.sun.com/25thsale.
The promotion enables both new and existing customers to quickly and
easily engage with Sun's most powerful technologies, including the
Solaris OS. Sale highlights include:
- Systems: 50 percent off the Sun Fire x4500, the industry's
first data server; up to 50 percent off the Sun Fire x4600, the world's
first 16-way modular x64 server; up to 60 percent off Sun Fire
CoolThreads systems, the most energy-efficient, high-performance
systems on the market; and up to 50 percent off high-performance
x64/x86 and SPARC workstations.
- Storage: Up to 65 percent off leading NAS systems such as the Sun StorageTek 5320 and 5220 NAS Appliances.
- Services: Sun offers lower-cost training and high-quality
services, including Solaris Subscriptions priced less than commercial
Linux; 40 percent off a service plan with the SunSpectrum Instant
Upgrade program; and 25 percent off most Solaris support subscriptions.
- Software: Sun's Solaris OS is available free at anytime and
is supported on the broadest set of x86 and UltraSPARC platforms,
making it the strategic OS of choice. Customers can easily develop
applications with free Sun development tools such as Sun Studio and
NetBeans software.
"Sun is always looking for creative ways to reach new and existing
customers, through programs such as Try and Buy and Sun Startup
Essentials," said Cavanagh. "Our anniversary sale is intended to
attract new customers, encourage migration off competing platforms, and
expand our footprint into broader markets."
Sun also launched a Web site (http://www.sun.com/25years)
honoring the company's quarter-century of innovation, with videos from
CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Chairman and Co-founder Scott McNealy;
historical timelines; photos; a virtual scrapbook of memories from
Sun's 25 years; and more.
Founded in 1982 and led throughout its history by the guiding principle
"The Network is the Computer," Sun has pioneered an abundance of
technologies that have helped customers grow their businesses on the
network: from Java and Solaris to ultra-thin clients; from network
storage to open source software. Now Sun is poised for another 25 years
of innovation, delivering new open, eco responsible network computing
technologies to help empower the people that will push the boundaries
of participation on the network.
During its 25 years in business, Sun has built a massive network of
customers, partners, developers, employees, alumni and other advocates.
Sun now operates in more than 100 countries around the world and
supports an ecosystem of more than 20,000 channel partners, Original
Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), System Integrators (SIs) and
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). More than 5 million developers
code in Java, supporting more than 4 billion personal computers, mobile
phones and other devices worldwide that run Java applications.
Read the original artticle: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-04/sunflash.20070423.1.xml
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