Friday, May 16, 2003
Sun Microsystems has cut price on its 12-processor Unix server, the midrange V1280 which was first introduced three months ago, in a move to fight off the competition.
Sun said cutting the price so soon after launch was made possible through savings that came with higher-volume production. Sun's biggest competitors, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, aren't holding back in their efforts to reclaim the leading position in the Unix server market from Sun. HP lowered its midrange Unix server prices in April while IBM cut its prices in the same month on high-end servers.
Sun cut the price of a four-processor V1280 with 8GB of memory by 25 percent, from about $80,000 to $60,000. The cost of a higher-end model with 12 processors and 24GB of memory was cut from $175,000 to $142,000.
The V1280 uses 900MHz UltraSparc III processors.
By: DocMemory
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