Tuesday, June 3, 2003
Sun Microsystems cut prices as much as 25 percent for its eight-processor V880 server and update it with a faster processor. The top sellers currently come with a 900MHz UltraSparc III processor but now available with a 1.05GHz model as well, according to the source familiar with the matter.
The deepest price cuts will occur on a four-processor model with 8GB of memory. The old price with the 900MHz chip is $60,000, but the new model with the 1.05GHz chip will be $45,000. Sun also will cut the price of its four-processor V480 server as much as 21 percent, sources said.
The highly competitive Unix server market, where leader Sun is fending off Hewlett-Packard and IBM, is also facing increasingly pressure from powerful Intel-based systems running Windows or Linux and being sold by Dell Computer and others. Hewlett-Packard and IBM have cut Unix server prices in April.
By: DocMemory
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