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Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMEPOWER Enterprise Servers

intransigence over Intel and Itanium. Fujitsu is committed to using SPARC for its mainframes, however,

and like most Japanese companies, when it invests in technologies, it invests for the long term.

Nevertheless, there will always be questions over the minority players in the market. Compaq's Tru64

AlphaServers had a 5 percent share of the worldwide Unix server market (by value) at a time when the

Unix market was still growing healthily, but this was not considered enough to sustain development of

Alpha. SGI hangs on determinedly with its MIPS-based servers in niche sectors of the server market, but

has a get-out clause with Linux and Intel Itanium. The difference of course between Fujitsu and these

players is that the Japanese developer isn't the sole supplier of SPARC/Solaris platforms. If Fujitsu did

eventually decide it couldn't afford to continue to develop its own SPARC-compatible architecture, its

customers could presumably return to Sun. In the meantime, customers can take advantage of an even

more scalable and available SPARC/Solaris server than Sun currently has to offer and a viable alternative

source for Sun customers.

By building to an established platform specification, Fujitsu/FSC benefits from a ready-made target market

and hasn't had to build up a new platform from scratch. By adopting another vendor's operating system,

however, Fujitsu/FSC must sacrifice some of the influence it could have over the direction its operating

system takes. So, for example, its XPARs, which provide greater granularity than Sun's System Domains,

are limited by the number of partitions allowed by Solaris. Although Sun and Fujitsu/FSC are partners,

they're also competitors, so that as we've already mentioned, Sun does not support PRIMEPOWER in its

Sun Cluster software.

To sum up, the PRIMEPOWER servers are a very viable alternative to Sun, provided clients are located

in geographical areas that are well served by Fujitsu, FTSI or FSC. In North America and some parts of

EMEA, the vendors' local organizations may still be limited, however, and clients should ask for

references of customers in their vicinity. Insofar as the PRIMEPOWER servers represent the current

technological "gold standard" for Unix scalability and availability, clients should also evaluate them against

HP and IBM servers, again provided that local support and availability is not an issue.

Pricing

Table 5: Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER XA Enterprise Models

Model

PRIMEPOWER 900

Low-End Configuration

Midrange Configuration

Description

PRIMEPOWER 900 base

cabinet (two system-board

slots), one system board

with two 1.35GHz CPUs,

4GB of memory, eight PCI

slots, two integrated

Ethernet controllers and

UltraSCSI controller, two

system disks, and Solaris 8

right-to-use license and

media

As above, but with two

system boards, eight

CPUs, 8GB of memory and

four system disks

Price ($)

177,000

365,000

DPRO-97941

17 April 2003