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Sun Earns Major Contracts with Chicago Tribune, Covisint, Littlewoods, TRW, and Visa U.S.A.
Sun recently announced that it has secured major contracts with leading
U.S. and international corporations. Already the acknowledged leader in
the U.S. UNIX[R] market, Sun is emerging as the global leader in UNIX
server sales, ranking No. 2 worldwide in server revenues for the first
quarter of 2001, and beating out rivals IBM and HP for the top spot in
the U.K., Indian, and ASEAN markets, according to Gartner Group and IDC
Research, respectively.
The Chicago Tribune selected Sun over IBM and Compaq to
provide the newspaper with a unified hardware platform to reliably
support its applications and minimize costs. Sun Enterprise[TM] 10000
servers, Sun StorEdge[TM] A5200 Arrays, and the Solaris[TM] OE were
selected based on their superior performance, reliability, and
scalability.
Covisint E-business exchange was founded in 2000 by DaimlerChrysler,
Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Renault, Oracle, and CommerceOne to
provide the global automotive industry with leading collaborative
product development, procurement and supply chain tools. Covisint chose
Sun to power its web, application, and database servers at data centers
in the United States and Europe because of Sun's high availability,
massive scalability, and commitment to anstandards environment.
Littlewoods, Britain's largest private company and one of Europe's top
retailers, chose Sun to support new growth plans through the
consolidation of its legacy infrastructure of Bull, IBM RS6000, HP, and
Sequent systems onto a single platform network. The Sun platform was
selected due to the superior flexibility and scalability of Sun
hardware, and to the ability of the Sun Enterprise 10000 server to
handle several domains on the same system.
TRW has led the initiative as the prime contractor by selecting
industry technology partners, including Sun, to build the technology
solution for the CCS-C. Sun is providing various mid-range
enterprise servers and UltraSPARC[TM] workstations. The Sun hardware will
perform data collection, storage and calculation capabilities that are
instrumental in safely tracking, monitoring and positioning satellites
controlled by the CCS-C.
Visa U.S.A. turned to Sun to help it build a highly available and
secure environment for its new, mission-critical electronic payment
system, Visa Direct Exchange. A combination of high-end Sun Enterprise
6500, 420R and 450 servers, the Solaris Operating Environment, Sun
StorEdge D1000 disk arrays, Sun[TM] Cluster 2.2 software, and Java[TM]
technology will enable Visa Direct Exchange to scale rapidly, handling
from 800 payment messages per day to an expected 10,000 messages per
second in two years.
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