Why is Sun now targeting the SMB market?
Sun has never had such a strong portfolio of products and solutions relevant for small and medium businesses with a high dependency on IT or increasing IT needs as their business and customer base grows. Our strategic alliances with Microsoft, Intel and AMD afford us a wide breadth of x64-based systems certified for Windows, Solaris and Linux that provide optimized space, performance, and efficiency within the industry standards widely implemented by SMBs. MySQL, OpenSolaris, CoolThreads technology, a wide breadth of storage offerings and our open source software strategy feed the portfolio that create the virtualization, database, email, web services and data management solutions SMBs are implementing today. We have also expanded our channel partnerships to provide more choice and paths to purchase Sun products, offering SMBs fast quoting, affordable prices and quick shipping. And, bottom line, SMBs are interested in Sun. 70% of the 8,500 free trials shipped from Sun in the past 2 yea
