IBM and HP may have narrowly edged past long-time leader Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers -- but it depends on who you listen to.
IBM has announced new midrange Unix servers in a tightening market that has Big Blue and its chief competitor, Sun Microsystems, at each other's throats.
IBM has shed light on an agreement with Sun that gives its customers the option of choosing Sun's Unix-based Solaris 10 as the operating system on IBM's x86-based System x or BladeCenter servers.
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Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more powerful
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With logical domains, Sun's Niagara systems will catch up this year to rival Unix and x86 servers.
Big Blue fires up a computer running IBM's forthcoming Power5 processor, a key milestone for the company's future plans to pressure Sun and Hewlett-Packard in the Unix server market.
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