New Mainframes from Sun and Fujitsu

k3_enterprise-m9000_3.jpgSun in collaboration with Fujitsu has launched a line of SPARC/Solaris machines targeting very high scale computing environments.

The machines are general purpose, run Solaris without modification, but offer features and scale that were historically the stuff only mainframe customers could love (because no other computers offered them).

The new line will be called M-class, M for Mainframe - says Jonathan Schwartz from Sun.

According to Sun’s official announcement from their website key features are:

This monster will cost you from $511,385 (US) and onwards depending on your configuration.

I believe Sun is directly competing with IBM’s P Series and HP’s Integrity Servers.

April 22, 2007 | Filed Under Servers 

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2 Responses to “New Mainframes from Sun and Fujitsu”

  1. Bart Tarot on April 22nd, 2007 4:38 pm

    I dont think it’s the P-Series that theyre going after, I think it’s the Z-series.

  2. admin on April 22nd, 2007 7:15 pm

    Hello Bart,
    well, they may also be going after Z-series, however they do benchmarks against P-series(P5, 595 - 64xPower5,1900Mhz) on their website.
    But after all, both of them are Mainframes targeted to big companies with big amount of $$…

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