Sun Launches Promotional Challenge

September 21, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (sun.com) announced new migration programs and promotional bundles of hardware and software designed specifically for financial services companies.

The programs are designed to provide incentives for companies migrating to Sun's Solaris Operating System (OS) on AMD Opteron processor-based systems.

"Sun is back on Wall Street with a clear path to the future," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer at Sun Microsystems. "We're back with Solaris, and we're ready to prove that Sun offers better service and more enterprise features at lower costs than our competitors. We are also the only vendor with a clear roadmap to protect and extend Wall Street's investment with no vendor lock-in."

Sun's latest initiative includes a Xeon trade-in program that enables Wall Street institutions to receive significant cash credits when they switch out their existing Xeon servers and purchase new Sun Fire Opteron processor-based systems.

In addition, Sun announced the Solaris-Opteron Challenge. Confident that customers will see performance and value superior to our competitors, Sun is offering a free trial of a Sun Fire V20z server and Solaris 10, to a limited number of qualified customers.

The challenge also includes free support through the Software Express program and a free performance tuning engagement. Participants in the program get to keep the servers and are also eligible to purchase additional Sun x86 hardware and Solaris 10 software at a discounted price.

Customers can find even more value in a new Linux to Solaris upgrade program, which includes a 50 percent discount on a right-to-use (RTU) license of Solaris when you upgrade from Linux.