The Sun rises again
A new report from Gartner Dataquest shows Sun regaining the leadership in Unix-based servers and gaining revenue and market share in the overall market over the most recent quarter. Sun’s renewed Unix-based leadership, earning the company a 31.4 percent share, comes in a segment that is flat, due to continued weakening at the high end, a trend toward server consolidation, and the continued progress of those pesky lower-end Linux-based systems.
Yet Sun has reported that it had the highest growth among the top five vendors in the Linux-based space in terms of shipments and revenues. And Sun did emerge, according to the report, with an overall sales growth of 7.6 percent over a year ago, and now trails Dell by a scant 0.1 percentage point in the overall market.
Just think what Sun could have done if it had embraced Linux earlier!
Anyways, good news for the Java heads and Java nuts.
Source: Sun Gains Server Market Share; Linux Continues to Grow