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http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-999623.html

Unisys targets IBM on server price


By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
May 4, 2003, 7:35 PM PT


Unisys is taking the pricing offensive against IBM in the market for powerful servers based on Intel processors.
The Blue Bell, Pa.-based company posted results of a new server speed test on Friday that the company says is evidence its new ES7000/540, released in April, is a better deal than IBM's x440. The move is a reversal of fortune for Unisys, whose high-end servers had been pressured when IBM's competing models arrived in 2002.

Unisys' server, with 16 2.0GHz Xeon MP processors, posted a score of 181,000 transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's widely watched TPC-C test. That score is a notch ahead of the 151,000 score IBM posted in March with a system that had the same number of processors running at the same clock rate.


In addition, Unisys' system cost $1.1 million compared with IBM's $1.7 million.

The move is the latest shift in an expanding and fast-changing market. Servers based on Intel processors were a market worth $16.4 billion in 2002, according to research firm Gartner. The analyst firm expects spending on Intel servers to exceed Unix servers in 2003 for the first time.

Unisys is a close partner of Microsoft. The two companies together have launched an attack on the high-end server market currently dominated by machines running various versions of Unix.

However, with the arrival of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor, designed for heavier-duty computers than the 32-bit Xeon, more companies are getting into market Unisys had largely to itself. IBM is planning a 16-processor Itanium server, NEC a 32-processor model, and Hewlett-Packard a 64-processor system.