Sun gains server market share for third quarter

Bangalore, Nov 23: IT major Sun Microsystems saw its year-to-year total server market share grow by 1.1 points, the highest among the top six server vendors.

According to IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, which was released today, it was the third consecutive quarter that Sun's market share grew. The server revenue of the company grew to 15.8 per cent.

Sun's growth was driven by the success of Sun Fire servers, both UltraSPARC_ and x64, and by customers who continued to embrace the Solaris 10 operating system, a company release here said today.

''We are outgrowing the competition mainly because of Solaris 10 which is the most complete server line-up,'' company Executive Vice-President Jon Flower said.

UNI