2. Speakers
• Ron Pasek – VP, Corporate Treasurer
• Jonathan Schwartz – CEO & President
• Mike Lehman – CFO & Executive VP,
Corporate Resources
2
3. Top Level P&L
Q108 Q408 Q109 Q-Q Y-Y
Actuals Actuals Actuals Change Change
Revenue 3,219 3,780 2,990 (790) (229)
Gross Margin 1,561 1,673 1,201 (472) (360)
Gross Margin % 48.5% 44.3% 40.2% (4.1) Pts (8.3) Pts
Operating Expenses * 1,498 1,610 2,851 1,241 1,353
Operating Income 63 63 (1,650) (1,713) (1,713)
Net Income 89 88 (1,677) (1,765) (1,766)
Operating Margin % 2.0% 1.7% (55.2%) (56.9) Pts (57.2) Pts
EPS GAAP $0.10 $0.11 ($2.24) ($2.35) ($2.34)
Non-GAAP Net Income ** 285 275 (65) (340) (350)
EPS Non-GAAP ** $0.32 $0.35 ($0.09) ($0.44) ($0.41)
* Total Operating Expenses includes SG&A, R&D, Purchase IPRD, Restructuring, and Intangible Impairment charges.
** See Slide 15 for a reconciliation of GAAP Net Income and EPS GAAP to Non-GAAP Net Income and EPS Non-GAAP, respectively.
3
4. Revenue Products Revenue down (11)% Y/Y
●
Services Revenue down (1)% Y/Y
●
PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Ye a r/ Ye a r C h a n g e
0% (1)%
$4,000 1%
7%
3% (1)%
17% 1%
(7)%
35% 37%
38%
$3,000 37%
Revenue (millions)
39%
37% 38%
39%
41%
$2,000
61% 63% 63% 65% 62% 62% 61% 63% 59%
$1,000
$0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
Services Revenue (% of Total)
Products Revenue (% of Total)
4
5. Revenue
PR OD UC TS/SERV IC ES
Ye a r / Ye a r C h a n g e
50%
Products Revenue
Services Revenue
40%
Revenue Y/Y Change %
31%
30%
25%
23%
21% 20%
20%
15% 15%
10%
7% 7% 7% 7%
6% 6% 6%
4% 5% 5% 5% 4%
3% 3% 3% 3%
2% 1% 1%
0% 0% -1%
-1% -1%
0% -2%
-3% -3% -4%
-5%
-7%
-10% -11%
-10%
-13%
-20%
Q104 Q204 Q304 Q404 Q105 Q205 Q305 Q405 Q106 Q206 Q306 Q406 Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
5
6. Billings Disclosure by Category*
($Millions ) Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 FY07 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 FY08 Q109
Systems Billings
Solaris SPARC Enterpris e Servers 642 908 762 1,076 3,388 793 978 702 939 3,413 576
Change % Y/Y 2 16 -9 1 2 23 8 -8 -13 1 -27
Solaris SPARC CMT Servers 109 138 142 220 608 185 282 299 353 1,119 338
Change % Y/Y 743 218 84 237 70 105 110 61 84 83
X64 Servers 153 176 162 192 684 169 157 186 195 707 176
Change % Y/Y 79 47 36 28 44 10 -11 14 1 3 4
Other Sys tems Products 421 466 388 462 1,737 356 367 282 286 1,292 156
Change % Y/Y -17 -14 -21 -23 -19 -15 -21 -27 -38 -26 -56
Subtotal*** 1,326 1,687 1,455 1,950 6,418 1,503 1,785 1,469 1,774 6,530 1,246
Change % Y/Y 8 15 -3 1 5 13 6 1 -9 2 -17
Software Billings
Java 24 41 60 94 219 29 45 57 88 220 34
Change % Y/Y 41 3 5 17 13 21 10 -4 -6 1 18
MySQL / Infras tructure 30 45 50 74 198 25 52 40 91 208 52
Change % Y/Y 100 9 79 35 43 -17 16 -20 24 5 111
Solaris , Management and Virtualization 50 65 52 55 221 44 59 49 64 216 38
Change % Y/Y -1 3 2 12 -12 -10 -4 16 -2 -14
Subtotal*** 104 151 162 223 639 97 156 147 244 644 124
Change % Y/Y 73 3 20 18 20 -6 3 -9 9 1 27
Computer Systems Reserves and Adjustments ** 39 -204 -117 -320 -602 -126 -347 -142 -295 -910 -114
Total Computer Systems Revenue*** 1,468 1,634 1,500 1,853 6,455 1,475 1,594 1,473 1,722 6,264 1,257
Storage Billings
Dis ks & Storage Arrays 294 386 345 387 1,412 302 407 350 468 1,528 311
Change % Y/Y 6 7 -2 -7 1 3 6 1 21 8 3
Open Storage 17 9 24 50 9 26 23 33 91 25
Change % Y/Y 55 155 37 83 162
Tape 204 277 242 266 990 196 282 195 279 953 188
Change % Y/Y 1 -25 14 -8 -8 -4 2 -19 5 -4 -4
Other Storage 8 12 -4 22 37 14 17 16 12 58 11
Change % Y/Y -5 20 -128 153 -12 69 41 458 -44 55 -16
Storage Reserves and Adjustments ** -15 -65 -32 -60 -172 -17 -77 -54 -128 -276 -28
Total Storage Revenue*** 491 626 560 639 2,316 505 655 530 664 2,354 507
Total Products Revenue 1,959 2,260 2,060 2,492 8,771 1,980 2,249 2,003 2,386 8,618 1,764
Services Revenue
Hardware, Software Support (Including Solaris & Other Software) 987 1,001 950 1,024 3,962 979 1,041 961 1,042 4,023 963
Change % Y/Y 18 5 5 4 8 -1 4 1 2 2 -2
Professional and Education Services 243 305 273 319 1,140 260 325 302 352 1,239 263
Change % Y/Y 30 11 15 0 12 7 7 11 10 9 1
Total Services Revenue 1,230 1,306 1,223 1,343 5,102 1,239 1,366 1,263 1,394 5,262 1,226
Total Sun Revenue 3,189 3,566 3,283 3,835 13,873 3,219 3,615 3,266 3,780 13,880 2,990
Notes:
8 20 26 43 96 55 44 69 73 241 61
Blade Servers Billings (includes CMT, X64, and Netra)
0 0 0 0 0 638 122 162 71 151 11
Change % Y/Y
● Solaris SPARC Enterprise Servers includes the Datacenter & Midrange server systems ● Solaris SPARC CMT Servers includes all CMT Servers, including CMT Blades and CMT Netra products
● X64 Servers includes X64 Rack, X64 Blades and X64 Netra products and excludes products categorized under Open Storage ● Other Systems Products includes Workstations, Volume SPARC, Netra SPARC, Integrated Products and Networking products
● Open Storage includes the Sun Fire X4500, Sun Fire X4540, J4200, J4400 and J4500 products ● Other Storage includes the NAS products
*Billings represent the amount invoiced to customers for products and are subject to cancellation. Billings is not a GAAP financial measurement, and therefore is not an audited number. Billings differs from revenue in that billings are not adjusted for any reserves and are not subject to any of the conditions
under GAAP that must be met before revenue is recognized. Accordingly, amounts billed may not lead to revenue and billings should not be viewed as equivalent to, or a substitute for, GAAP revenue.
Reserves and adjustments represent deferrals, reserves and other reductions of invoiced amounts required under GAAP before revenue is recognized.
**
*** Excludes service revenue attributable to Systems, Software, and Storage including maintenance and support shown in the Hardware, Software Support line under Services Revenue
6
7. Billings Trends*
Growth Categories
Traditional Categories
2,250 1,125
2,000 1,000
1,750
875
Billings (millions)
Billings (millions)
Open Storage
Other Storage
1,500
750 Solaris, Manage-
Tape
ment and Virtualiza-
1,250 Disks & Storage tion
625
Arrays MySQL / Infrastruc-
1,000 Other Systems ture
500
Products Java
750
Solaris SPARC X64 Servers
375
Enterprise Solaris SPARC
500
Servers CMT Servers
250
250
125
0
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 0
07 07 07 07 08 08 08 08 09 Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter Fiscal Quarter
* Billings represent the amount invoiced to customers for products and are subject to cancellation. Billings is not a GAAP financial measurement, and therefore is not an audited number. Billings differs from revenue in that billings are
not adjusted for any reserves and are not subject to any of the conditions under GAAP that must be met before revenue is recognized. Accordingly, amounts billed may not lead to revenue and billings should not be viewed as equivalent
to, or a substitute for, GAAP revenue.
7
8. Services Revenue Support Services down (2)% Y/Y
●
Professional Services/Edu Services up 1% Y/Y
●
TOTAL SERVIC ES REVENUE
Ye a r/ Ye a r C h a n g e
$1,500 4%
5%
3%
6%
3%
20% 1%
7% (1)%
25%
24%
23% 24%
Revenue (millions)
21%
20% 24%
22% 21%
$1,000
$500
79% 76% 76% 75% 79%
80% 77% 78% 76%
$0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
Professional Services/Edu Services
Support Services Revenue (% of Total
Revenue (% of Total Services)
Services)
8
11. R&D / SG&A Expense*
Ye a r/ Ye a r C h a n g e (3)% Y/Y decrease
●
$1,800
(7)% (5)% (12)% 2%
(2)% (2)%
13% (3)%
$1,500 (3)%
$1,200
(millions)
$978 $957 $958 $989 $1,032
$995
$958 $939
$900 $920
$600
$300 $514 $514
$507
$473 $463 $468
$457
$446 $423
$0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
SG&A
R&D
* Total Operating Expenses differ from SG&A and R&D Expenses because Total Operating Expenses includes IPRD, Restructuring,
& Intangible Impairment charges.
11
12. Demand Metrics
Book to Bill Ratio & Backlog Deferred Revenue at $2.8B
Ye a r / Ye a r G r o w t h
8%
3,000 9% 24% 9%
6%
14%
Q108 Q408 Q109 15%
Balance (millions)
10%
2,500 9%
Book to Bill Ratio* 0.98 1.00 0.99 2,000
1,500
Product & Services 1,000
Backlog ($M) ** $1,931 $1,919 $1,900 500
0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
* Book to Bill Ratio assumes Services ratio 1:1.
** Services Backlog based on three month backlog horizon
12
13. Deferred Revenue Products Deferred Revenue up 49% Y/Y
●
Services Deferred Revenue down (3)% Y/Y
●
PRODUCTS/SERVICES
Ye a r/ Ye a r C h a n g e
8% 9%
9% 24%
$2,800 6%
14%
15%
10% 9%
Revenue (millions)
$2,100
78%
78%
78% 77% 72%
75% 71% 70% 70%
$1,400
$700
22% 25% 23% 22% 29% 28% 30% 30%
22%
$0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
Services Deferred Revenue
Products Deferred Revenue
(% of Total)
(% of Total)
13
14. Revenue - Geo North America down (12)% Y/Y
●
Europe down (8)% Y/Y
●
North America/ Europe/ Emerging Markets up 12% Y/Y
●
Emerging Markets/ APAC* APAC down (4)% Y/Y
●
3,835 3,780
$4,000
3,615
3,566
3,283 3,266
Revenue – Geo (millions)
12% 3,219 12%
3,189 12% 2,990
12%
$3,000 13% 13% 14%
12%
13%
12% 15%
13% 12%
13%
13% 14%
12%
15%
31%
$2,000 33% 33%
34%
32%
31% 33% 32%
34%
$1,000
45% 42% 41% 39% 39%
44% 43% 41% 41%
$0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
Revenue-APAC
Revenue-Emerging
Revenue-North Revenue-Europe
(% of Total)
Markets (% of Total)
America (% of Total) (% of Total)
* Effective Q1FY09, we began utilizing revised geographic groupings. Percentage of total revenue figures have been adjusted to reflect the change in the compilation of the countries that make up each of our
geographic regions.
Geographic revenue reported for Q1FY07 and Q2FY07 has been adjusted to reflect a correction in intercompany revenue to properly report country of origin.
14
15. Non-GAAP Calculation of Net Income
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals Actuals
GAAP net income (Loss) (56) 133 67 329 89 260 (34) 88 (1,677)
Non-GAAP adjustments:
Purchased IPRD 0 0 0 0 0 1 24 6 0
Amortization of acquisition related
intangibles 81 80 78 74 74 74 76 86 80
Stock based compensation 58 58 50 48 48 52 57 57 49
Restructuring and related impairment of
21 26 35 15 113 32 14 104 63
long-lived assets
Impairment of Goodwill 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,445
(Gain) loss on equity investments, net 0 0 (5) (1) (22) 0 0 (10) (8)
Settlement Income 0 0 (54) 0 0 0 0 (45) 0
Tax effect of non-GAAP adjustments (10) (7) (10) (7) (17) (10) (5) (11) (17)
Non-GAAP net income (loss) 94 290 161 458 285 409 132 275 (65)
Diluted Non-GAAP net income (loss)
per share $0.11 $0.32 $0.18 $0.50 $0.32 $0.50 $0.17 $0.35 ($0.09)
Change vs. prior year (%) 266.7% 500.0% 357.1% 455.6% 190.9% 56.3% -5.6% -30.0% -128.1%
Change vs. prior quarter (%) 22.2% 190.9% -43.8% 177.8% -36.0% 56.3% -66.0% 105.9% -125.7%
15
16. Server Metrics
Total Server Units
Ye a r / Ye a r C h a n g e
120
(11)% 2%
100 1%
Total Server Units
4% 6%
11% (5)% 2%
(5)%
(thousands)
80
60
40
20
0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
x64* Server Units
Ye a r / Ye a r C h a n g e
28% 39%
26%
35
0% 13%
x64* Server Units
30
22% 10% 7%
(thousands)
25 55%
20
15
10
5
0
Q107 Q207 Q307 Q407 Q108 Q208 Q308 Q408 Q109
Fiscal Quarter
* x64 servers include x86 32-bit and x64 64-bit servers and blades
16
17. Major News from Sun's Q1 FY09
• Focused on Long-term Growth & Profitability
> According to the IDC Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker for Q2CY08, Sun outpaced all
major storage vendors to see a 29.2% year-over-year increase in factory revenue for the
second quarter of 2008, outperforming the market by nearly three times.
Released 20% growth adoption numbers for the Open Storage community, specifically
>
highlighting OurStage's use of OpenSolarisTM, Solaris ZFS and advanced open storage
technologies.
Announced that shipments of Sun RayTM Thin Clients nearly doubled quarter-over-quarter. Sun
>
Ray unit shipments were growing faster than the entire thin client industry, highlighting the
appeal of thin client and desktop virtualization.
Announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBoxTM as well as xVM VirtualBox Software
>
Enterprise Subscription, offering 24/7 premium support for enterprise users. Achieved
milestone of xVM VirtualBox surpassing 6.5 million downloads worldwide and 15,000
downloads a day.
Announced that the JavaTM Platform Micro Edition is integrated in the new HP iPAQ 900 series
>
Business Messenger smartphone. Based on the Sun Java Wireless Client software - Sun's
Java ME implementation for wireless handsets - and enhanced with custom features designed
specifically for HP, the new HP 3G smartphone delivers a flexible wireless e-mail experience,
including convenient voice control and hands-free operation.
Launched Sun Open Suite for SWIFT, software and hardware integration for financial
>
institutions and corporate treasuries.
17
18. Major News from Sun's Q1 FY09
• Delivered Ground-Breaking Innovations to the Market
Released the Sun StorageTekTM T10000B, the industry's first one terabyte tape storage drive.
>
Introduced the Sun Storage J4000, a new line of economical storage arrays, and the Sun FireTM X4540,
>
a new highly efficient, high-performance addition to the popular Sun Fire X4500 quot;Thumperquot; family.
> Announced the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, equipped with eight Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processors,
set the World Record score of 683,542 SPECjbb2005 bops for fastest x86 JavaTM Server.
Extended the family of Intel XeonTM-based Sun Fire servers with two new High Performance Computing
>
offerings, the Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250 servers, representing the fastest Xeon-based 1U
server for technical computing workloads and the most expandable Xeon-based 2U server for
enterprise-class systems, respectively. Also introduced the Intel Xeon-based Sun Fire X4450 server and
Sun Blade X6450 server, each with up to six processors.
With Xilinx introduced a 64-bit open-source, multi-core, multi-threaded OpenSPARCTM evaluation
>
platform, continuing the expansion of the UltraSPARC® ecosystem.
Expanded virtualization with Sun xVMTM Server software and Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0.
>
Announced the addition of VMware Virtual Desktop Manager and VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
>
to Sun's line-up of virtualization solutions. Certified Sun Ray thin clients as VMware Ready for VMware
VDI and allowed secure connection with VMware Virtual Desktop Manager.
Introduced the following additions to Sun NetraTM carrier-grade server family, driving performance,
>
efficiency and scalability: Sun Netra X4250 server, Sun Netra X4450 server, Sun Netra T5540 server.
Partnered with Fujitsu on a new enhanced line of SPARC Enterprise® servers that delivers a
>
virtualization and consolidation platform with up to 80 percent better performance on commercial
applications and 2x better performance on HPC workloads and using 44 percent less energy per core.
18
19. Q1 FY09 Sample Customer Momentum
• Based on Sun's strong Services and storage hardware offering, The BMW Group selected
Sun to provide managed storage on demand services and SAN infrastructure in Europe, the
U.S., South Africa and Asia Pacific for the next five years. Sun was also chosen to provide
disk and tape infrastructure for the mainframe environment in the Munich headquarters.
• City Bank, one of Bangladesh’s top commercial banks, has purchased and deployed the Sun
SPARC Enterprise M5000, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, Sun StorageTek 6540
modular array and Sun StorageTek SL24 autoloader running on the Solaris 10 Operating
System (OS) to support the bank’s ambitious plans for growth.
• Stésud, a Belgium-based ERP provider with eGovernment clients that include the Belgian
government, looked to Java when it identified that its existing software infrastructure needed
refreshing. Stésud evaluated several solutions and selected Sun's GlassFishTM application
server. As part of this multi-million dollar deal, Stésud also employed Sun's MySQL
EnterpriseTM subscription, allowing the company to dependably migrate to a more scalable and
reliable Web database architecture for the future.
19
20. Industry Analyst Recognition
• “Sun Microsystems' acquisition of MySQL further validated the open source database market's
worthiness, and enterprises can now expect even more reliability and improved support in the
coming years.”
- “Market Update: Open Source Databases”, Forrester Research, Inc., July 2008
• “Sun continues to invest in its UltraSPARC T2 line, and it unveiled two new models with strong
performance improvements over the existing line in April.”
- Sun Microsystems Server Residual Value Analysis, August 2008, Susan Middleton, IDC,
Doc #213754
• “With their recent announcement, Sun and Fujitsu put a new spark into SPARC-based platforms.
They have increased performance, lowered energy consumption, lowering the total cost of
ownership (TCO) in SPARC, and preserved the investment that legacy data centers have made in
Sun products.”
- in The Clipper Group Navigator, quot;Sun and Fujitsu Ignite Enterprise Systems with a
New SPARCquot;, August 11, 2008
• “The Sun J4000 products, with their leading scalability and density among current SAS subsystems,
can serve as ideal hardware components for open storage solutions. J4000 systems attach to
servers via the LSI-made SAS HBAs.”
- IDEAS International Inc., Aug. 14, 2008, J. Zhou, IDEAS Insight Blog: The Real Story Behind
Sun’s Breakthrough Economics with Sun Storage J4000 (Part 2)
• “This new announcement [OpenSSO] is a very good step forward for Sun’s customers. Customers
have the best of both worlds – a very innovative product with a large and active engineering base,
together with professional support.”
- Kuppinger Cole, July 24, 2008, Felix Gaehtgens, Sun unveils new models for OpenSSO
21. Praise for Sun's Continued Innovation
Strong Sun Q1 FY09
Product Reviews Installing Sun OpenSolaris Sun Server Delivers Heavyweight Performance
By Tory Skyers By Jeff Ballard
ZFS takes quite a bit of worry out of my day. I don't have to worry about Sun crams a lot of gear into this 1U device. To put it in perspective, a
purchasing expensive RAID controllers. I can use the SATA ports on my
standard rack can hold as many as 40 of these servers. Thus, a rack full
motherboard and get great redundancy and fault tolerance. I can take
Sun's virtualization activity of the units as we tested would give you a whopping 320 processor
●
snapshots, and revert from snapshots via a browser interface. I can
cores, 320 hot-swappable hard drives, 640 DIMM slots, 120 PCI-E slots,
received strong feedback from create ZFS volumes and manipulate those volumes via the same
and 160 Gigabit Ethernet connections.
browser-based interface. Couple all that with the ability to segregate my
InformationWeek, InfoWeek, PC server into logical partitions like IBM's LPARS, and you have some
Worries about Sun's support of operating systems other than Solaris are
serious potential. Once this thing is set up, I don't foresee much care and
World, Macworld and CRN. unfounded. The X4150 provides more bang for your server buck than
feeding outside of critical security patches.
comparable offerings from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM.
Computerworld said that the Sun
●
Fire X4150 was “very powerful
for what is a singe U high pizza Hands On With JavaFX - First Impressions
box” and is “decidedly capable”. By Andrew Trice
TM
InfoWorld gave NetBeans 6.1 Performance-wise, I was very happy with the smoothness of the
●
A First Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0
animations inside the runtime (although i didn't put it through rigorous
a 9/10 rating, saying “NetBeans By Jason Fitzpatrick
tests). After all, it is Java, and Java has very mature graphics APIs.
may well be the overall pick of Mac OS X users will be pleased with 3.0, because support for OS X is
Overall, I think this is a great step for RIAs in general. Sun/Java has the
this review group”. potential to become a major player in the RIA game. Flex/AIR is still even more robust. OpenOffice.org 3.0 works right out of the box with
undoubtedly my quot;weapon of choicequot;, but I'll be keeping a close eye on minimal fuss. Another bonus for OS X users: features that were dropped
JavaFX. from the Mac version of Microsoft Office such as the spreadsheet Solver
TechTarget advised readers to
●
and VBA support are included in the Mac version of OpenOffice.org.
“keep a close eye on the Like other great open source projects such as Firefox, OpenOffice has
development of”OpenSolaris. support for extensions to allow you to tweak the software as you see fit.
The OpenOffice Extension Repository is filled with everything from
Get Started With Virtual Machines
The O'Reillly Network reviewed dictionaries to templates to file import wizards to code formatting tools.
●
By Scott Spanbauer
the JavaFX preview SDK, saying
“Sun/Java has the potential to Sun Microsystems should rename its free, open-source virtualization
utility VersatileBox. Not only does it run on Windows, Linux, Mac, and
become a major player in the Sun's OpenSolaris, but it also supports an even wider array of guest
OSs, including just about any version of Windows.
RIA game”.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 launch
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Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4450 server
received major praise from By Michael Palamountain
Lab test: Climb aboard Ruby on Rails
mainstream, IT and online news By Martin Heller
sources, including ZDNet For raw power this is the gutsiest server we have seen. The benchmark
results are the best we have seen in high end servers — particularly the
Australia's Editors' Choice NetBeans may well be the overall pick of this review group, at least SunGard score — although we cannot claim to have tested such a
based on the numbers. Whether it should be your own pick, however, machine with specs quite like this before.
award. depends on your personal preferences.
Sun compares this machine against an IBM x3850 and a Dell R900 in its
If you already use NetBeans for Java and/or C/C++ development, then it
features description. These are both 4 RU machines (the Sun Fire is just
should probably be your top choice as a Rails IDE as well. Delivering
strong editing and navigation along with good debugging and profiling, 2 RU in size), yet Sun manages to pack just as much inside the case.
it's a very capable and highly integrated Rails IDE. And it's free.
22. New Record-breaking Results for Q1FY09
350+ World Records and counting
Model Benchmark
Sun SPARC Best ever OpenMP result on SPECompL2001 benchmark
HPC
Enterprise M9000 with Solaris 10 OS and Sun Studio 12 compiler software
Sun SPARC Best result ever recorded on SAP SD 2-tier benchmark
ERP
Enterprise M9000 with Solaris 10 OS and Oracle Database Server 10g
Sun SPARC The highest floating point result in the world with Solaris 10
HPC
Enterprise M8000 OS and Sun Studio 12 compiler on SPECfp2006 benchmark
Sun Fire X2250 Best 2 socket x86 results -SPECompM2001, SPECcpu2006
HPC
with OpenSolaris OS and Sun Studio Express compilers
Sun Fire X4600 The fastest x86 Java server in the industry with Solaris 10
Java
and latest Java Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) software
Sun Fire X4450 4-socket champion on Enterprise Java benchmark
Java
Sun Fire X4450 Best result on brand new SPECjvm2008 benchmark
Results were posted during Q1FY09 (July-Sept. 2008). See Benchmark Disclosure slide for additional information.
23. Benchmark Disclosure
SPEC and the benchmark names SPECweb, SPEComp, SPECfp, SPECint, SPECjAppServer and SPECjbb are registered
trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive data obtained from http://www.spec.org as of
the date located above the paragraph. See respective websites for the latest results. For comparison purposes, the terms
CPU, chip and processor are used interchangeably. Each socket can accommodate one chip. SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of
SAP AG in Germany and other countries. For the latest results and additional information visit www.sap.com/benchmark.
As of 7/14/2008:
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark: SPARC Enterprise M9000, 64 proc.
/ 256 cores / 512 threads, UltraSPARC64 VII 2.52 GHz running Solaris 10, Oracle 10g and the SAP ERP application Release
6.0 (2005) – 39,100 SAP SD Benchmark users, 196,564 SAPS. Certification Number 2008042.
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (256 cores, 64 chips, 192/256 OMP threads, 2.52GHz) 1456653 SPECompL2001, 1250890
SPECompLbase2001
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server(SPARC64 VII 2.5GHz) 28.8 SPECfp2006,
As of 8/19/2008:
Sun Fire X2250 (2xIntel Xeon X5272, 4 cores, 2 cores/chip, OpenSolaris 2008.05): World Record x86 result of SPECfp2006
26. Sun Fire X2250 (2xIntel Xeon X5272, 4 cores, 2 cores/chip, SLES 10): World Record result of SPECint2006 28.5. Sun Fire
X2250 (2xIntel Xeon X5472, 8 cores, 4 cores/chip, SLES 10) World Record for all 2-chip x86 systems of SPECint_rate2006
148. Sun Fire X2250 (2xIntel Xeon X5272, 4 cores, 2 cores/chip, OpenSolaris 2008.05): 4 thread World Record of
SPECompM2001 13,934
As of 08/05/2008:
Sun Fire X4600 M2 (8 chips, 32 cores) 683,542 SPECjbb2005 bops, 85,443 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
As of 09/15/2008:
Sun Fire X4450 (24 cores, 4 chips)- 260.08 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m – 283.79
Sun Fire X4450 (4 x Intel Xeon X7460 processors, 24 cores, Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition v.1.6.0_06p, Solaris 10)
531,669 SPECjbb2005 bops, 132,917 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
