10 billion 500 million server Unix China giant preference related market value

In server operating system now, Windows has been on an equal footing and can dominate the world more than 20 years of Unix, Linux is becoming overbearing, industry is full of a concern for the future of Unix voice. IDC's latest data show that third quarter Unix server sales revenue was $3 billion 900 million, down about 0.5 percentage points. With the market share of the highest selling Unix servers shrinking, some research institutions and even predict Unix will soon appear negative growth. However, in Chinese market, IBM, HP, Sun and other traditional Unix vendors but on this battlefield fighting was awfully: in a corner of the recent "national tax administration event is IBM and HP Unix single intense snatch emerge from the tip of Sun, in order to check the decline back to its former glory, also recently launched two using the latest UltraSparc T1 processor with low power consumption Unix server. Why giants to go on fighting this not to be optimistic about the market?

No reduction in production

The authority's data may illustrate some of the problems. In the world, the Unix server still accounted for nearly 32% of the server market, it can be said the thin dead camel than ma. The current total value of China's Unix market is about 10 billion 500 million yuan, of which government users accounted for a share of the second, second only to finance, telecom ranked third in the world, accounting for about $16.8%.

For a long time, the Unix system has been carrying the core IT application China financial, government, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and other fields, although some marginal businesses gradually be more cost-effective to replace the IA server, but the key business system in the financial, telecommunications, government and other areas of application, the core of the Unix is still in a period of time irreplaceable.

The IDC report shows that, although the Unix in the server market share of shipments is reduced, but the high-end Unix server market revenue is growing, which means that the Unix server as a key task computing platform in the enterprise data center is recovering. For manufacturers, it means that the Unix market reduced income, gold content increased, but users are more concentrated in a few industries in minority funded VIP customers, this part of the scramble for natural more intense.

The State Administration of taxation is undoubtedly the most typical users, it's no wonder that when winning the $20 million single, IBM so elated, and when the media intentionally or unintentionally to the State Administration of Taxation HP abandoned Itanium using IBM P5 server after the message is sent, the HP will be so tight, Zhang held a special conference to clarify. During the war the government procurement in a fierce competition, winning or losing is very normal, HP may afford to lose this one, but can't afford to lose the user very fancy Unix server trust.

HP in Chinese spokesman Wei Jianglei told hundreds of media that all HP high-end server first purchased by the State Administration of taxation is still in its life cycle, it continued to be used; secondly, the purchase tax administration two years ago is 46 sets of high-end HP server based on Superdome PA-RISC system, rather than the Itanium platform Integrity server based on.

While the first reported false information to the HP reporter Sumner Lemon in apology message, said the HP had been planned in one day to release its fiscal 2005 fourth quarter earnings, but IBM said on Thursday the release time of coincidence.

Another Unix server giant Sun rely heavily on this market and investment is no worse. Although it is ahead of HP and IBM in shipments, it has lost its lead in the market. At the beginning of this year, in order to solve the short board Unix own closed system, Sun Solaris10 open source code, abandoned the original hardware and software on the assumption of free service charges, but it attracted the pros and cons of trade dispute. Recently, Sun has launched two models using its latest UltraSparc T1 processor Solaris version of the Unix server system, the goal is to regain the market by its competitors snatched. These two models named T1000 and T2000 server power and heat are small, to solve the current data center faces the pressure of electricity, heat dissipation and space constraints and other issues.

Across three obstacles

In addition to other operating system and architecture press market foreign aggression, the existence of Unix has been deeply criticized the industry internal problems: closure, high cost and uncertainty. Enclosed is the standard existing Unix system is not unified, each with its own standard "behind closed doors" development of their own platform, not well with the system of the third party sharing and integration. Industry experts said: Unix is just wearing an open coat, but each has its own chips, systems, in fact, are not open to each other. The next few years will certainly be more than the coexistence of the world."

This also means that the future of the competition will remain fierce, especially the high profits and strong attraction. Although the Unix security, stability is very good, but the funds are very substantial after all, only a small number of users. In addition, the current Unix uncertainty also allows manufacturers to prepare for the future multi hand, in the improvement of other product lines and systems to make full preparations for the transplant. In order not to affect the user's confidence, manufacturers have said: our strategy is a single platform multi operating system strategy, the user choose what we will provide." In the final analysis, competitors still want to dig each other's customers to their own, regardless of what the user is willing to transplant to the system.

China HP Enterprise Server product manager Pei Hui believes that HP provides all the platform to the user to choose, regardless of whether the server is running Linux, Windows or Unix, or a higher end of the host system, HP