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page no.
eighteen
unix servers
dave turek
Vice President, Scientific
and Technical Computing
Offerings, Web Servers
in 2000, ibm unix servers held
more industry performance benchmarks
than any other vendor.
according to idc,ibm is the
number one worldwide
server vendor
when measured by revenue.
number one
in
supercomputing
ibm leads the top500 list of supercomputers,
with 215 of the world’s 500
fastest, most powerful supercomputers.
The painful irony of our history in
Web servers is that we invented
the RISC chip
—
the basic building
block of the UNIX marketplace.
But rather than exploit that tech-
nical head start, we watched as a
handful of competitors did
—
and
built advantages so significant some
considered them insurmountable.
Some, but not us. We made the
decision in the late ’90s to stay in
the market, invest, mobilize and
compete. Today, behind IBM-
invented technologies like silicon-
on-insulator and copper-based
microprocessors, our pSeries
eServer is the price/performance
leader. The S80 is the fastest-
selling UNIX server in history, and
our overall UNIX server revenues
were up 28 percent for the year,
49 percent in the last quarter.