Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy Unveils Systems That Leapfrog Competition

Sun Network Computing 2005 Q4 (NC05Q4) -- In a keynote speech at its quarterly Network Computing event, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy showcased new open source and energy-efficient systems designed to power the next generation of the Internet. McNealy highlighted a range of progressive moves from Sun delivering customers more choice and flexibility in deployment, radical savings in energy and space costs, and huge performance and innovation gains to provide them with competitive advantage.(1)
"With our new systems, Sun is now years ahead of our competitors. Couple that horsepower with our recent open sourcing of our Internet infrastructure software and we've provided customers with the technical edge they need to compete in an increasingly interconnected world," said McNealy. "This world is what we call the Participation Age. An age where 3 million people join the Internet each week, contributing content, ideas, business opportunities, and innovation back into the Web. That presents enormous economic opportunity for our customers, but it also puts enormous strains on the network."
McNealy continued, "Energy costs are sky high. Real-estate is expensive. People are trying to break into systems to steal information. And government regulations require companies to secure even more data. This puts a lot of pressure on companies to get things right or suffer the consequences. That's why we've made the moves we have. We want to share technologies and ideas that can help companies and the industry get ahead of the curve."
"Sun's mission is to eliminate barriers to Internet participation. This drives economic opportunity for new participants, helps existing providers expand their services, and, of course, opens the largest market opportunity possible for Sun Microsystems," McNealy explained. "We in turn deliver our customers the most advanced systems on the market to take advantage of this opportunity. And I'm proud to say we now have the best product line-up in our 23-year history."
For more information related to all of Sun's NC05Q4 announcements, as well as those above, go to Sun's online press kit at http://www.sun.com/presskits/networkcomputing05q4/ .
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(1) SPECweb2005 -- Sun Fire(TM) T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 13854 SPECweb2005. IBM x346 (2 cores, 2 chips) 4348 SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun Fire T2000 results submitted to SPEC. Other results from http://www.spec.org as of December 6, 2005. IBM x346 Specifications from brochure, 09/05/05: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/x346.html . IBM x346 power rating estimated by calculating 70% of the power supply data reported in the product brochure. Sun Fire T2000 server power consumption of 330 watts taken from measurements made during the benchmark run.
Results from internal tests -- Crypto Processing RSA & DSA sign operations @ 1024-bit. Sun Fire T2000 Server produced 12,850 RSA operations/second. Dell Power Edge 2850 produced 1900 RSA operations/second
Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 13854 SPECweb2005. IBM p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881 SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun Fire T2000 results submitted to SPEC. Other results from http://www.spec.org as of December 6, 2005. IBM p550 specifications, 10/06/05, from http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/entry/550.html . IBM 550 power ratings calculated by applying 70% of the power supply data published in "Facts and Features Report," 10/06/05, posted at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/factsfeatures.html . Sun Fire T2000 server power consumption of 330 watts taken from measurements made during the benchmark run. IBM p5 550 based on October 4, 2005 pricing from http://www.ibm.com configured with 4-way 1.9Ghz Power 5+ processor card with 36MB of L3 cache and with 32GB of Memory (16X2GB DDR2 DIMMs), 2 X 73GB, 10Krpm Ultra320 SCSI disk drives, 2 X 1475W power supplies, 1 x 2-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI-X Adapter and Suse Linux (no cost). Total Cost = $49,907. Sun Fire T2000 Server configured with 1.2 Ghz UltraSPARC(R) T1 processor, 32GB of Memory (16X2GB DDR2 DIMMs), 2 X 73GB, 10Krpm, 2 X power supplies, 4 x 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet ports and Solaris(TM) 10. Total Cost = $25,995.
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