IBM's UNIX® systems have set the industry standard for price and performance for the last 5 years, earning IBM the pole position in this competitive marketplace. With these new products, the AIX® Collaboration Center and the IBM Migration Factory, we have widened the competitive gap even further, deliver more computing power for the money for our clients and making it easier than ever to switch to IBM. |
If (software companies) stand to gain additional business, and if customers are feeling a pain that the solution addresses, then the ecosystem occurs naturally. If the market doesn't really want the stack, it could cost about $50 million to $100 million a year. |
If (software companies) stand to gain additional business, and if customers are feeling a pain that the solution addresses, then the ecosystem occurs naturally. If the market doesn't really want the stack, it could cost about US$50 million to US$100 million a year. |
If you took us out of the Unix market you'd actually see a shrinking Unix market, or flat, as Gartner calls it. |
Instead of a big-bang release, what we're trying to do is give customers access to the code early. |
Nobody has anything that comes even close to touching the p5 595. |
The news out of Sun on the Niagara product is surprisingly weak. Based on Sun's early descriptions, the Niagara architecture appears to be targeting a niche (market). |
This announcement clearly widens an already large gap between IBM and our competitors. |
We want to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in useful situations so that our customers can get these new capabilities deployed as soon as possible. |
With the phenomenal market growth of Power and [the Power5 processor], we have a lot of interested parties. It's only been discussions, but they are interested in the market performance of Power and AIX. |