CCID News September 21 news, after the multi-year struggle with Microsoft, SUN now aims the target of Linux manufacturers. The company said before, they will enter the low-end server market based on the Solaris system. On Tuesday (21st), Sun will officially declare the plan to Wall Street users. Sun said that the test indicates that the server system based on the Sun Solaris system and the AMD OpterOn processor is a better server platform compared to the equivalent configuration of the Red Hat Linux system. Not only low price, but its stability is also more reliable. Sun Chief Marketing Officer Anil Gadre said: "More and more users go to the low-end market, this is a big market that is very developing. Frank, we have not added this market." IT global IT. " During the downturn, Sun got huge profits by selling its own SPARC chip and high-end server products of the Solaris system. However, due to more and more users aware that low-end server products consisting of low-end chips and low-end Linux systems can also meet their needs, so Sun has lost a large number of customers in the past this year. For this sun, the industry analysts believe that it is not clear that the low-end market can change the current situation of Sun. Illuminata analyst gordon haff said: "SUN can win consumers in the low-end market, there is still no way to judge." SUN sales reached 11.19 billion US dollars within this fiscal year, loss of 388 million US dollars. But this contains $ 1.95 billion due to Microsoft. In fiscal 2003, Sun sales were $ 11.43 billion, lost 343 billion US dollars. Sun also revealed that its new version of the Solaris operating system will be listed later this year. By then, if you do not change any code, the new version of the software will allow the user to run all Linux software programs. In addition, Linux also plans to open the source code of the Solaris system.
