Oracle Unveils 'World's Fastest Chip' in Bid to Save Sun Biz - Businessweek

Another perspective on Oracle's latest Sun hardware launch; note that Oracle also competes in the category described in the final sentence below, with its Exadata product family

"Rather than trying to woo customers away from competitors, Oracle is mostly trying to convince its existing customers to upgrade their Sun hardware. At its peak, Sun sold about $3.5 billion of computing hardware per quarter. Now Oracle sells about $670 million of hardware per quarter. Where Sun once dominated the market for high-end (Unix) servers, it now accounts for only 17 percent of the market, tying HP and trailing IBM’s 63 percent market share. Most companies looking to build fast, large computers cobble together lots of smaller servers based on Intel’s Xeon server chip."

Oracle Unveils 'World's Fastest Chip' in Bid to Save Sun Biz - Businessweek