Fujitsu
and Sun to deliver advanced product line for high-performance
Solaris solutions
Posted: 03 June 2004
Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT company, welcomed
the announcement by parent company, Fujitsu Limited,
and Sun Microsystems, Inc., on the expansion of
their 20-year strategic relationship to include the joint development
and delivery of future generation Solaris and SPARC-based systems.
The announcement brings together the technology of two of the strongest
companies in the world to deliver best in class platforms for all
possible network computing workloads for Solaris and SPARC.
Fujitsu and Sun will bring together their Solaris and SPARC-based
server product lines by mid-2006, creating the industry's most
complete data centre systems family, code named the Advanced Product
Line (APL). APL will run the world's leading enterprise-class operating
system, Solaris, the Java Enterprise System, and virtually every
major enterprise application. When complete, the APL will replace
Fujitsu's and Sun’s existing PRIMEPOWER and Sun Fire product
lines, respectively. Customers will benefit from safe and seamless
binary compatibility along the SPARC roadmap.
To complement this announcement, Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced
that it will work together with Sun Microsystems in Europe, Middle
East and Africa (EMEA) and build on both companies’ strengths
and technical expertise to market, deliver and support SPARC and
Solaris-based solutions.
A key collaboration area will be the establishment of aligned
industry solution centers in EMEA, which will focus on implementations
of the whole solution stack from hardware through middleware
offerings up to integration of the applications that customers
need to implement their Business Critical Computing environments.
“The APL will benefit from the technical superiority of
the relationship, is a direct continuation of our current, highly
successful PRIMEPOWER product line, and will represent a major
element of our Business Critical Computing strategy,” said
Joseph Reger, Chief Technology Officer, Fujitsu Siemens Computers. “This
collaboration will continue to set us ahead of the competition
in terms of speed and agility in responding to customer needs.
We look forward to working together more closely with Sun Microsystems
in the future.”
“The strong acceptance of the best-in-class architectures
based on SPARC and Solaris platforms will be reinforced with our
collaboration with Fujitsu Siemens Computers” said Frederick
Kohout, VP of Marketing, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Sun
Microsystems. “Working together will allow us to deliver
unmatched depth of experience in data center infrastructure with
the broadest product line in the industry.”
PRIMEPOWER systems from Fujitsu Siemens Computers are highly scalable
Unix servers. Ranging from small and medium workgroup servers and
compute nodes to enterprise models for business critical applications,
the PRIMEPOWER series of UNIX servers provides customers with mainframe-class
reliability, and also super-computer-like performance. By applying
latest virtualization, automation and integration technologies,
Fujitsu Siemens Computers provides products and solutions that
increase business efficiency, agility and continuity with the SPARC64™/
Solaris-based PRIMEPOWER servers.
About Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European IT provider
with a strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and Business
Critical
Computing products, services and solutions.
With a portfolio
of exceptional depth, our offering extends from handhelds
through desktops to enterprise-class IT infrastructure solutions.
Fujitsu
Siemens Computers is present in all key markets across Europe,
the Middle East and Africa.
Leveraging the strengths, innovation
and global reach of our joint shareholders, Fujitsu Limited
and Siemens AG, we make sure we meet the needs of customers:
large corporations, small and medium enterprises and private users. For more information on see www.fujitsu-siemens.com
About Sun Microsystems, Inc
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — "The
Network Is The Computer" — has propelled Sun Microsystems,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength
hardware, software and services that make the Network.
Sun can
be found in more than 100 countries. For more information see http://sun.com 
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