Sydney, Australia, 4 September 2007 - Sun Microsystems has taken the number one position in the overall server market for Australia with 30.9 per cent market share in terms of revenue, according to IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly Enterprise Server Tracker, Q2 2007, August 2007.

The following are key highlights of Sun's performance in the Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) region server market for CYQ207:

• Number one vendor in overall server market in Australia in Q2 2007
  Sun took over the number one position in the overall server market in Australia in terms of revenue in Q2 2007
• Number one vendor in high-end enterprise server units shipped in ANZ
  Sun was the number one ranked vendor in the high-end enterprise server segment in ANZ with 40.7% unit shipment share in Q2 2007. With less than 5 points revenue market share difference with the market leader, Sun was in the number two position in Q2 2007 with 40.8% share.
• Number one vendor in the midrange enterprise servers segment
  In terms of units shipped (62.9%) and value (54.3%), Sun reached the pole position for midrange enterprise servers in ANZ in Q2 2007. Sun was the fastest growing vendor among the top three vendors in this segment in terms of revenue on a year-on-year (Y/Y) basis in Q2 2007.
• UNIX servers - Sun leading vendor
  From both a number of units shipped (70.7% share) and value (67.6% share) perspective, Sun is the number one vendor in the UNIX server segment in ANZ in Q2 2007.
• Volume servers - number 4 in terms of unit shipments and revenues
  Sun was number four in units (5.8% share) and number four in value (10% share) in the volume servers segment in ANZ in Q2 2007

Sun was also the fastest growing vendor in the Windows servers segment among the top five vendors in ANZ on a year-on-year basis in Q2 2007

"Our achievement in taking on the number one server position in Australia is indicative of strong interest in enterprise consolidation and virtualisation platforms as well as the growth of Solaris. We've also had huge success in adoption of our energy efficient technologies", said Gary Kelly, head of Sun's systems practice for Australia and New Zealand.

"Driven by power, cooling and space considerations, this trend has resulted in a resurgence of the high-end of the market where Sun is particularly strong," said Kelly.

"Many companies, Sun included, are aware of the need to reduce their carbon emissions, move to more environmentally sustainable business practices and green the data centre. We have seen significant growth in our UltraSPARC T1- based systems which produce less energy than a household light bulb," said Kelly. "Sun's historical and continued investment in eco innovation enables our customers to significantly cut energy consumption in the data centre."

"Sun has also witnessed increased adoption of its Solaris 10 operating system, an open source offering with enterprise class reliability and built-in virtualisation and consolidation capabilities. Global downloads of Solaris 10 are more than 7 million and local uptake represents 2 per cent of this number," said Kelly.

On a year-on-year basis, total server spending increased 19.2 per cent in Q2 2007 in Asia/Pacific (ex. Japan), according to the IDC Asia/Pacific Quarterly Enterprise Server Tracker, Q2 2007, August 2007. In the ANZ region, overall server spending grew 28.4 per cent year-on-year in Q2 2007, which was the highest among the four sub-regions: ANZ, Greater China, ASEAN & India and Korea.

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