Sun Microsystems Proprietary/ConfidentialJune 2004, v1.0 Pg. 1

Why Sun over IBM: Why Sun over IBM:

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June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 2

Agenda● Business Fundamentals

– Sun's Financial– Market Share

● Unmatched Investment Protection● Delivering on Throughput Computing ● Delivered System Performance Leadership● Superior Operating System Advantages

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Business FundamentalsBusiness Fundamentals

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 4

Market Value

$13.4BCash and

Marketable Debt Securities

$7.5B

Installed Revenueto Date

$131B

JavaTM and SunTM Brand Awareness

90%+

Fortune

173Company

Total Patents

3,500+

Sun's Industry Strength – The Power of Sun

ApplicationsSolarisTM 8 OS/SPARC: 6,900+

SolarisTM OS/x86: 1,000+

As of 5/24/04

R&D

$1.8B+

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 5 UNIX(R) Systems leads the server market in revenue. Sun leads in UNIX Shipments.

Source: Gartner DQ Q4CY03 Server Tracker

2003 Server Revenue By Operating System

Sun Solaris$5,432

12% of total33% of UNIX

UNIX w/o Solaris$11,218

24%

Other$11,228

24%Linux

$3,2207%

Windows$15,008

33%

Operating System Market ShareUNIX 36%UNIX + Linux 43%Windows 33%

Sun's Market Strength – Leader in the Largest Market

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Sun server shipments exceed pre-dot-com boom levels, with steady Y/Y unit shipment growth since 2001. Sun server shipments are nearly 3 times 1997 shipment volume.

Source: IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, February 2004

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Sun's R&D Investment Strength – Investments for the Future

● SPARC(R) Roadmap (APL, CMT Processors code names Rock & Niagara)

● SolarisTM OS for SPARC(R) and x86 based platforms

● JavaTM Desktop System, Java Enterprise System on SPARC(R)/x86 platforms

● Security, identity, authentication ● Systemsness (RAS, CRS, PS, GC, managed

services)● Utility computing/N1TM Grid Computing● Storage

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 7

Joining SPARC Forces for a Bright Future

Thousands of Applications

Sun Fire TM

FujitsuPRIMEPOWER

Mission-critical computing heritageSPARC64™

Jointly Developed SPARC-Based Advanced

Product Line (APL)

Throughput Computing

USIV USIV+ Niagara RockCode Name Code Name

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 8

Attack Cost andComplexity

Accelerate NetworkService Deployment

Mobility withSecurity

● Reference Architectures and CRS Solutions

● N1 Grid Solutions● SPARC(R) based Systems● Sun FireTM Systems with

AMD & Intel● Network Storage● Services

● Sun JavaTM Enterprise System

● JavaTM Enterprise Developer Programs

● iForce SM Partners

● SolarisTM ● Managed Security

Services● JavaTM Card Technology

Delivering On Sun’s Strategy ...

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 9

Systemness Approach: Foundations for Network Computing

SolarisTM JES/JDS/N1Software Stack

Sun FireTM SystemsSun StorEdgeTM

System/Storage

SPARC(R)/x86Processor

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SolarisTM/JavaTM Developer CommunityISV Community

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iForce SolutionsFrom servers to software to services, Sun is a systems company with an unrelenting focus on building simple, secure network infrastructure and our technologies don't require the glue of an expensive service organization. Through our R&D efforts, we make technology work for customers.

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 10

“ “Not only does this (Sun-Fujitsu Alliance) make sense for Sun . I think it's going to make customersNot only does this (Sun-Fujitsu Alliance) make sense for Sun . I think it's going to make customersfeel that there is a lot more strength in the foundation technology because it isn't just Sun taking a bet on it.” feel that there is a lot more strength in the foundation technology because it isn't just Sun taking a bet on it.” Jean Bozman, IDC server analyst, Reuters, “Sun, Fujitsu join forces to fend off HP and IBM”, 06/02/04Jean Bozman, IDC server analyst, Reuters, “Sun, Fujitsu join forces to fend off HP and IBM”, 06/02/04http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040602/tech_sun_fujitsu_1.htmlhttp://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040602/tech_sun_fujitsu_1.html

Sun-Microsoft AllianceSun-Microsoft Alliance ““......Sun announced cost reductions, a $1.95 billion payment and technical partnership with Microsoft, and Sun announced cost reductions, a $1.95 billion payment and technical partnership with Microsoft, and the promotion of software exec Jonathan Schwartz to president and COO. These moves remove doubts the promotion of software exec Jonathan Schwartz to president and COO. These moves remove doubts about Sun's viability by bolstering Solaris, Sun's key customer asset, and its accompanying ecosystem. about Sun's viability by bolstering Solaris, Sun's key customer asset, and its accompanying ecosystem. Sun customers no longer have a reason to move to Linux but must push Sun to fully duplicate the Sun customers no longer have a reason to move to Linux but must push Sun to fully duplicate the Solaris ecosystem on x86. Non-Sun customers should add Sun to their shortlist and demand Solaris ecosystem on x86. Non-Sun customers should add Sun to their shortlist and demand support for Linux and Windows.” Forrester Special to CNET News.com, April 2, 2004support for Linux and Windows.” Forrester Special to CNET News.com, April 2, 2004http://news.com.com/2030-1069-5184596.html?tag=nlhttp://news.com.com/2030-1069-5184596.html?tag=nl

"RFG believes Sun Microsystems, Inc. has effectively addressed questions about its staying power in the "RFG believes Sun Microsystems, Inc. has effectively addressed questions about its staying power in the industry by unveiling a plethora of products, services, and packaging techniques last week that demonstrateindustry by unveiling a plethora of products, services, and packaging techniques last week that demonstrate its sophisticated technologies, and its understanding of what it takes to remain a key player in the industry."its sophisticated technologies, and its understanding of what it takes to remain a key player in the industry." "Sun Flares Back! (Part One)", Robert Frances Group (RFG), February 19, 2004. "Sun Flares Back! (Part One)", Robert Frances Group (RFG), February 19, 2004.

Sun Quotes:Sun's Staying Power

More Strength in Foundation Technology

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Top Reasons to Choose Sun over IBM

Investment Protection

Large Application Portfolio

Better Prototyping of Solutions

Better Partitioning

Predictable Performance

Reduce Complexity

Better RAS

Sun's offers easy upgrade of existing hardware (no box swap), offers a Application Compatibility Guarantee, which maintains SW binary compatibility across server generations, supports Mixed Generation/Speed Processors helping to preserve application infrastructure investments. In contrast, IBM has often forced forklift upgrades, has broken binary compatibility, and has not offered mixedspeed processor support, resulting in costly upgrades and migrations to new platforms.

Considerably more Solaris 8 and 9 OS applications (>8,000) than AIX5L 5.1 and 5.2 applications (<2,000).

iForce Ready Centers allow rapid prototyping of customer solutions ”try before you buy”; IBM has nothing like it.

Sun Dynamic System Domain technology and new N1 Grid Containers in Solaris 10 OS can provide more robust partitioning with lower overhead than IBM's pSeries LPARs.

Sun FireTM

Servers provide predictable performance over a wide variety of workloads, pSeries has widely varying performance on different workloads. And DTRACE in Solaris 10 OS offers a powerful tool for tuning and diagnostics for optimal performance tuning.

N1 Grid, JavaTM

Enterprise Systems, Sun's Reference Architectures and Customer Ready Systems vs. IGS billable hours and lock-in.

More complete RAS story: Sun FireTM

servers are designed to help automatically identify, isolate, and recover from hardware failures AND allow online expansion and repair. New Predictive Self-Healing feature in Solaris 10 OS provides error detection and auto recovery to help improve service availability.

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 12

Unmatched Investment Unmatched Investment ProtectionProtection

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 13

Sun Investment Protection means protecting the Entire Application Lifecycle ● Maintains 100% SW binary compatibility across server

generations– Sun USIII--> USIV--> USIV+ --> Future UltraSPARC(R) CMT

Processors

● Offers the Solaris Application Guarantee Program– IBM does not offer

● Sun supports Mixed Speed and Mixed Generation processors– IBM does not support

● Easy upgrade of existing hardware

– Upgrade to USIV with no box swap required

– IBM often requires a box swap

● Preserve application infrastructure investments– Training, software development, and deployment– Solaris 8, 9, and 10... Operating Systems

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Multiyear Time Line= Plug and play processor upgrade = Binary break, box swap = No mix/manage upgrade

Ongoing Solaris OS Upgrades – No Forced Migration Sun

Binary Software — Write Once, Run AnywhereSM

Uniboard Trade in or Fill Spare Slots Only – All Hot Upgrade, No Down Time

USIII USIV

Incompatible Software — Re-compile AIX 4.3.3 to AIX 5L

IBMPower4 Introduction -- Box Swap Box Swap

?HP

Itanium

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Opteron Yamhill

No Mix and Manage – Upgrade Everything –Multiple Binary Issues

Industry-leading Investment Protection

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 15

Delivering on Throughput Delivering on Throughput Computing StrategyComputing Strategy

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 16

● Maximize performance gains– Leap forward in throughput performance by an order of magnitude

– Single thread performance competitive with industry leaders

● Support for heavily threaded applications– Solaris OS has supported multithreaded environments since 1992

● Leverage Sun's SMP server expertise– Create powerful “server on a chip” processor designs

– Set new standards for performance and reliability

● Protect investment in SPARC(R)/SolarisTM platform– Full binary compatibility across all Chip Multithreading (CMT)

generations

– Immediate benefit to threaded network applications

– Optimized for network-facing and data-facing systems

Sun's Throughput Computing Strategy

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 17

Today

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SPARC(R) Processor Families Roadmap

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What is IBM's POWER roadmap for radical multi-threading? Beyond Power 6

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June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 18

SolarisTM OS Enables Throughput Computing

● MT-hot kernel, JavaTM VM,system libraries

● Fast thread library● 64 bit memory addressing● Memory Placement Optimization● N1 Grid Containers● Development & tuning tools

Ready for multi-threaded applicationsReady for multiple applications

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 19

New Enterprise Class Servers:

50% Price Performance Improvement

UltraSPARC(R) IV Doubled Performance

● 100s of new customers including Boeing, Siemens and Daimler Chrysler

● 37 world record benchmarks

SolarisTM OS

UltraSPARC(R) IV Processor

SMP Architecture

JavaTM Technology

JavaTM EnterpriseSystem

Threaded Applications

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 20

Sun Positioning vs. IBM Mid-High End ServersEstimate: Q3 2004 – Mid 2005

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POWER5 Squadron 64(32 x Power5 / 64-

way*)

POWER5 Squadron 8

(4 x Power5*)

Note: IBM's Power5 is a dual core /dual thread CPU 8-way= 4 x P5 = 8 Cores = 16 threads64-way = 32 x P5 = 64 Cores = 128 Threads

p670 (8 x Power4 / 16-way*)

p650 (4 x Power4 / 8-way*)

p690 (16 x Power4 / 32-way*)

Sun Fire E20K (36-way, 72-threads)Sun Fire E4900

(12-way, 24-threads)

Sun Fire E6900(24-way, 48-threads)

Sun Fire E25K (72-way, 144-threads)

SPARC/Solaris

Sun Fire E2900 (12-way, 24-

threads)

POWER5 Squadron 16(8 x Power5*)

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 21

Delivered System Performance Delivered System Performance LeadershipLeadership

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 22

Sun's System Performance:Beating IBM: Head to Head

World record performance using UltraSPARC IV processor

● SPEC CPU2000 int_rate: E6900 Processor 32% faster than 1.7Ghz p690*

● SPEC JBB2000: 24-way E6900 beats 32-way 1.3Ghz p690; E6900 Processor 2% faster than 1.7 GHz p690*

● Manugistics: 24-way E6900 Server Twice 1.3Ghz 32-way IBM p690*

● Sun Fire E25K Server 68 GB/s Delivered Memory Bandwidth More than Twice the 34 GB/s on the 1.7 GHz p690

● Sun Fire 15K Server Beats p690 Perf 2x Large IO, 5x Small IO

● No SpecOMP IBM p690 results!*

● No SAP-SD 4.7 2-Tier IBM p690 results!*

*See Slide “Legal Substantiation”Power 5 is expected to get a 40% performance improvement over Power4

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 23

World Record Manugistics BenchmarkMulti-Tier OLTP: NetWORKS Fulfillment V7.1

● Retail Database Architecture: 30M SKUs/Hr– Complex Retail Supply Chain Management System 1.28B

Planning Elements/Hr, 42-day replenishment

– 24-way E6900 1.97x Faster than 32-way IBM p690 1.3Ghz● Sun Fire 6900 Server 1.2GHz & StorEdge T3

– 1.91x Speedup Faster than Sun's previous 6800– 24-way E6900 Scales Nearly Linear from 12-way E4900

● 3 Previous Manugistics World Records

Sun Public Results: www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004-02/sunflash.20040210.3.htmlIBM Public Results: www.manugistics.com/news/detail.asp?id=471

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 24

Legal Substantiation(Include this slide with each presentation)

Manugistics NetWORKS Fulfillment 7.1, 30 Million stock keeping units (SKUs) per hour. IBM:www.manugistics.com/news/detail.asp?id=471

24-way Sun Fire E6900 421,773 SPECjbb2000 JBB ops/s; 32-way IBM 1.7Ghz p690 553,480 SPECjbb2000 JBB ops/s; 32-way Fujitsu 1.35Ghz PP1500 492,683 SPECjbb2000 JBB ops/s; 24-way Sun Fire 6800 231,121 SPECjbb2000 JBB ops/s; 32-way 1.3GhzIBM p690 339,484 SPECjbb2000 JBB ops/s. SPEC, SPECjbb TM of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results (02/10/04) on www.spec.org. Latest results http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2000/.(comparison based on dividing result by # Processors)

Sun Fire E6900 224 SPEC CPU2000 int_rate peak 32 processor; IBM 690 322 SPEC CPU2000 int_rate peak 32 processor; HP Integrity Superdome 453 SPEC CPU2000 int_rate peak 32 processor; Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER1500 288 SPEC CPU2000 int_rate peak 32 processor; Sun Fire 6800 32-way 180 SPEC CPU2000 int_rate peak. SPEC and the benchmark names SPECfp, SPECint, SPECrate are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of April 16, 2004.(comparison based on dividing result by # Processors)

Sun Fire E25K set a record SPECompL2001 score of 316,182. SPEC and the benchmark name SPEComp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of April 16, 2004.

SPEC(tm) and the benchmark name SPECweb99_SSL(tm) are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of 2/10/2004. The comparisons presented above is based on the best performing 2-cpu servers currently shipping by Sun, IBM, and Hewlett Packard. Latest SPECweb99_SSL benchmark results www.spec.org. Two-tier SAP R/3 4.70 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark Sun Fire[tm] E20K: 5,050 benchmark users, 36 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC IV processors, 192 GB, Oracle 9i, Solaris 9, SAP cert#2004006. HP Integrity Superdome: 2160 benchmark users, 16 Intel Itanium2 1.5 GHz processors, 128 GB, SQL Server 2000, Windows Server 2003 DE, SAP cert#2003064; NEC Express 5800 1320Xd: 4,030 benchmark users, 32 Intel Itanium2 1.5 GHz processors, 256 GB, SQL Server 2000 Windows Server 2003 DE, SAP cert#2003067; Results at www.sap.com/benchmark/ as of 02/10/04.

TPC-H, QphH and $/QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). For additional information on the TPC-H benchmark, please visit the TPC's Web site at http://www.tpc.org/.

SPECjAppServer2002 DualNode comparisons based on results pupublished by SPEC as of 4/16/2004. DualNode Sun Fire V20z : 690.13 TOPS at 101.10 US$/TOPS. DualNode HP Proliant ML370G3: 431.26 TOPS at 160.62 US$/TOPS. (690-431) /431 = 60%. (160-101) / 101 = 37%

The 2-way Sun Fire V250 running Solaris[TM] and Lotus[R] Domino 6.0 when configured in 1 partition achieved 2,300users, $6.50/ user, 1,952 Notesmark tpm, & 896ms response time. 2 -way IBM x235/Linux7.3 achieved 3000users, 2583 Notesmark tpm,325ms response $7.10/userFor additional information on the NotesBench workloads, please visit the NotesBench Web site at http://www.notesbench.org

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 25

Superior Operating System Superior Operating System Advantages Advantages

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The Solaris 9 Operating SystemUNIX Leadership Today

Drive Down Cost● Services integration

● App, directory servers● Apache, Tomcat, Samba...● Industrial-strength

filesystem/volume mgr.

● Performance gains● Threads● Memory● Datapath

● Application Guarantee compatibility

Security Everywhere● Fine-grained

access control● Secure remote access● Strong authentication

Always Available● Patch manager● Sun Fire RAS● Solaris OS

Provisioning

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 27

Solaris 10 OS: A Generation Ahead

ExtremePerformanceDynamic Tracing

PlatformChoice

New UltraSPARC IV,New AMD Opteron

RelentlessAvailability

Predictive Self Healing

UnparalleledSecurity

Process Rights ManagementCrypto Infrastructure

OptimalUtilization

N1 Grid Containers

Why isn't IBM talking about upcoming AIX 5.3 Features, with the exception of micro-partitioning?

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 28

Sun Fire Server Availability Strategy● Reduce planned and unplanned downtime● Use highest quality components and manufacturing

methods (● Provide 100% Hardware Redundancy● Automatically identify, isolate, and recover from

hardware failures, by leveraging Dynamic System Domains (DSDs).

● Provide for extensive online serviceabilityReasons for Unplanned Downtime

People40%

Process40%

Product20%

Planned vs Unplanned Downtime

Planned80%

Unplanned20%

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Availability StrategiesSun Fire servers:● Highly reliable servers with

auto-diagnosis and online serviceability

IBM pSeries servers:● Highly reliable servers with

auto-diagnosis, but requiring deferred service

● IBM pSeries lack features needed to minimize planned downtime

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UNIQUE

Relentless Availability: Predictive Self Healing with Solaris 10 OSOnline Recovery with Automated Services that Can Offer

● Breakthrough approach to service availability– Error detection & aggregation, auto recovery

● Reduced downtime– Components proactively offlined before failure– Automatic service restart– Diagnosis & mitigation in milliseconds, not hours

● Reduced complexity– Simplified error reporting– All system & service interdependencies recorded and

correlated● Reduced costs

– Reduced system downtime, increased utilization– Higher server-to-administrator ratio

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 31

Predictive Self Healing

Solaris AIX Z/OS WIN XP LINUX HP_UX

Error/Fault Diagnosis

Error/Fault Information

Error/Fault Recovery

Error/Fault Manageability

INDEX

Best-in-Class Losing

Competitive Not Competitive

Lagging

Error/Fault Prediction & Detection

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 32

Partitioning Technologies

Soft Hard

IBM LPAR Partitions• SW Fault Containment• Limited HW Fault Containment• Flexible• Security Isolation• Workload Separation• Partially Dynamic (AIX 5.2)• Prevents Online Serviceability

- Share Critical Components- Higher overhead- Costly management/maintenance- Cannot be Serviced Online

Solaris Containers &N1 Grid Containers (Solaris 10)• SW Fault Containment• Highly Flexible• Security Isolation• Workload Separation• Fully Dynamic• Failover Mechanisms• Management Framework

Dynamic System Domains• HW & SW Fault Containment• Flexible• High Security Isolation• High Workload Separation • Fully Dynamic• Allows Online Serviceability

IBM LPARs:

Sun offers the best of both worlds:The isolation of physical partitions with the flexibility of soft partitioning technology

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Sun's Dynamic System Domains Minimize Impact of Failures

SW

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LPAR

IBM LPARs

HW

SW SW SW SW

Dynamic System Domains isolate HW & SW failures

IBM pSeries server failures can impact multiple LPARs (interconnect, I/O hypervisor, clock and memory)

DomainDomainDomain

LPARLPARLPAR

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Partition RASFEATURE HP nPar HP vPar

App SW Fault Isolation Yes Yes Yes YesOS SW Fault Isolation Yes Yes Yes YesCPU Fault Isolation Yes Yes Yes NoCache Fault Isolation Yes No Yes NoMemory Fault Isolation Yes No Yes NoI/O Subsystem Isolation Yes No Yes NoI/O Bus Isolation Yes No Yes NoI/O Slot Isolation Yes Yes Yes NoI/O Driver Isolation Yes No Yes ??Partition Isolated Diagnostics Yes No Yes NoPartition Isolated Servicing Yes No Yes NoPartition Online Service Yes No No NoPartition Online Upgrade Yes No No NoDedicated Mgt Net F12K/F15K No N/A No

Sun Fire 4800-15K

DSD

IBM p670/p690

LPAR

(1) Sun Fire 12K/15K Just the Facts(2) Sun Technical White Paper: The SunFire(TM) 12K and 15K Servers--Availability for the Net Effect(3) Sun Technical White Paper: Sun Fire 15K Server: System and Resource Management

(4) IBM eserver pSeries 690 System Handbook(5) IBM United States Hardware Announcement 102-080, April 8, 2002(6) Sun interview with IBM p690 customer

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Partitioning Serviceability

Partition Servicing Sun IBM

Done Online

If you add any additional CPUs Done Online

Done Online

Done Online

Done Online

Done Online

Done Online

If you add any additional memory

Must shutdown ALL LPARs and power the entire machine OFF

Must shutdown ALL LPARs and power the entire machine OFF

If you add any additional I/O drawers

Must shutdown ALL LPARs and power the entire machine OFF

If you add or remove non hot-swappable PCI adapter

Must shutdown ALL LPARs and power the entire machine OFF

If you need to repair/replace a CPU

Must shutdown ALL LPARs and power the entire machine OFF

If you need to repair/replace a memory module

Must shutdown ALL LPARs and power the entire machine OFF

If you need to repair/replace a I/O drawer

Must shutdown ALL LPARs and power the entire machine OFF

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● Breakthrough approach to virtualization– Host 1,000s of applications/services

on one system, with a single OS instance– Hardware independent

● Superior resource utilization– Dynamically adjust to business goals– Less than 1% system overhead– Easy to create, replicate and maintain

● Significant increase in uptime and security– Each service fault- and intrusion- isolated– Instant Restart: containers can start in seconds

● Reduced costs– Simplifies and accelerates consolidation

Optimal Utilization: N1 Grid Containers Advancing Partition Capabilities in Solaris 10 OSConsolidation Made Simple, Safe and Secure

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N1 Grid Containers

Solaris LINUX

Isolation

# of Virtual Environments N/ALow Overhead N/ACost Of Management N/A

Summary

INDEX

Best-in-Class Losing

Competitive Not Competitive

Lagging

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MS Virtual

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HP_UX w/

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Important criteria to consider for partitioning:

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UNIQUE

Extreme Performance: Dynamic Tracing in Solaris 10 OSThe Performance Bottleneck Buster

● Breakthrough approach for tuning– Power tool for real-time analysis, diagnosis

● Safe and comprehensive– Non invasive, little overhead, easy to use– One view into both system and application level– Over 30,000 data monitoring points

● Designed for live use on production systems– No need to force failure, then do postmortem debug– No need to re-create the problem on test systems– No need to run different, slow, instrumented OS in production

● Reduced costs– Solutions found in minutes or hours, not days or weeks– Optimized apps: cases of 3-30x speedups already seen

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 39

Dynamic Tracing

Solaris AIX Linux HP-UX

Comprehensive

Real Time

Safe

Dynamic

INDEX

Best-in-Class Losing

Competitive Not Competitive

Lagging

Win 2003

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UNIQUE● Breakthrough approach to enterprise security– Military grade, built in and easy to use

● Interoperability– From open source to MS Windows

● Reduced costs– Less system downtime, less admin sink time

Identity Data Access Apps SystemStrongerauthenticationSmart-cardinterfaces

Pervasivecryptographicinfrastructure

Access rightsmanagementwith strongerlogin controls

Process rightsmanagementContainers

IP filteringHardenedsystemsettings

Over 20 years of design, testing, refinement and experience

Unparalleled SecurityMilitary Grade for the Commercial World

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 41

Security

Solaris IBM AIX HP-UX SuSE Windows

Summary

INDEX

Best-in-Class Losing

Competitive Not Competitive

Typical

RedHat Enterprise

Enterprise Authentication & Authorization

Reduced Costs / Easier Administration

Penetration Prevention & Exploitation Containment

Independent Certification - Common Criteria

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 42

What is the future of AIX?

...”The operating system business, which is a multi-billion-dollar business for us, in recent years has essentially been a flat business. AIX has been a flat business. We're supporting Linux on the pSeries today, and I think we'll see more and more customers over time decide to run the pSeries with Linux.”

... “In the future, we'll see more and more customers run Linux on Power instead of running AIX on Power, and to us that's fine. AIX has always been an enabler.” Steve Mills, IBM EVP S, interview with Computerworld.

” IBM's Mills sets sights on middleware, Linux”, Computerworld, 10/24/03

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Sun: Still the Best Answer10 Reasons Sun Remains the Platform of Choice for Network Computing

1) Solid Business Fundamentals2) Compelling Vision 3) Track Record of Innovation:

N1, Java, XML, NFS, UltraSPARC4) Consistent, Cohesive Product Strategy

--Extreme performance at compelling prices--Binary compatibility contract--Commitment to OpenSource

5) Stable Management Team6) Integrated/Integrateable

Technologies7) Best-in-Class Partners8) iForce Solution Centers: Test Before You Invest9) Deep Expertise in Core Networking Technologies10) Lower TCO over Solution Life-cycle

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Appendix: Appendix: Addressing IBM's CompetitiveAddressing IBM's Competitive

Attacks on SunAttacks on Sun

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Sun's Viability● Sound business fundamentals:

– Cash in the bank, low debt– Continued high R&D investment in innovation– Marketshare leadership– Very large installed UNIX customer base

● Clear technology direction:– Processor design: SPARC Processor based CMT– Enterprise computing: Solaris OS; Java Enterprise

System; N1 Grid; Security and Identity Mgmt.– Industry standards: x86; Linux; Java Technology

– Backwards and forwards compatibility

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SPARC Processor Viability and Competitiveness

● Clear roadmap● Generational

performance gains: 2X to 30X

● Ongoing compatibility● Very large ISV library

and adoption rate● “Fabless” business

model

– World Record Performance On Real World Apps— Sun Fire Servers 49 Lifetime World Records,

Starfire Servers 42 Lifetime World Records— World Record MANUGISTICS Sun Fire E6900

Single System— World Record 36-way 2-Tier SAP-SD 4.7 Sun

Fire E20K*— World Record SPEC ompL2001* Scientific

Computing— SPEC CPU int_rate* Better per Processor

Performance than HP, Fujitsu 1.35Ghz, IBM 1.7Ghz

— SPEC JBB2000* Better per Processor than Fujitsu 1.35Ghz and IBM 1.7Ghz

* See Legal Substantiation Slide

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The Sun Advantage

Optimizedfor TargetedWorkloads

Real-world Application

Performance

Simple toDeploy and

Manage

PromisingUpgrade Path

Scalable

InvestmentProtection

Dependable Secure

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Increased UtilizationDynamic reconfiguration/hot swapDynamic system domains

Flexibility/Investment ProtectionMix, match and manageBinary compatibility

DependabilityFault isolated partitioningFull hardware redundancy

Increased ThroughputSuperior linear scalabilityPublished delivered bandwidth

Sun IBM HP

Full supportPartial supportNot supported

The Industry Leader Extends its Lead

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 49

Throughput Computing &Throughput Computing & Chip MultiThreading (CMT)Chip MultiThreading (CMT)

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 50

● Sun's new UltraSPARC IV processor roughly doubles the throughput of its previous generation UltraSPARC III processor

● Disagree. Sun defines CMT as a processor capable of executing 2 or more software threads simultaneously. Our first-generation CMT, implements this using two cores.

– Future generations of Sun's CMT processors will incorporate multiple cores, executing multiple threads.

● When this design was first disclosed, at the Microprocessor Forum in October 2003, it was clearly pointed out that the L2 cache was not shared.

● POWER 4 has Multi-year lead

● CMT is not Multi-threading it is primitive dual core

● Sun's UltraSPARC IV processor is advertised as having a 16 MB L2 cache per chip

The Real StoryInaccurate Claims The Truth

The Real Story

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 51

● Sun reinforces the promise of Throughput Computing (30X of UltraSPARC III processor) by accelerating code name “Rock” development effort

● CMT processors are accelerated by adding resources from code name Millennium processors

● Committed to providing optimal roadmap to UltraSPARC CMT “code names” Rock/Niagara-based systems

● CMT is a straightforward extension of Sun's proven SMP system technology to processor level

– 1st generation UltraSPARC IV processor now available

– Complete binary compatibility across all CMT generations

● Sun breaks its promises

● UltraSPARC processor customers are being abandoned with no path forward

● You shouldn't bet your business on unproven CMT?

Inaccurate Claims The Truth

The Real Story

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 52

● CMT is intended for both:– Network facing (code name

Niagara)– Data facing (code name Rock)

● Code name Niagara 1 is on schedule

– 2004 tapeout & first silicon– 2006 revenue realization

● SPARC processors are for Throughput Computing

● Opteron processors are for high-performance x86 solutions for today's scale-out enterprise applications

● CMT is intended only for network facing applications

● Niagara 1 schedule has slipped

● Opteron may replace SPARC processors

The Real Story

Inaccurate Claims The Truth

The Real Story

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 53

● Sun does not have bandwidth and contention issues.

– The Real proof is in overall delivered system performance and throughput

● If Sun is so slow, why does Sun outperform IBM on memory bandwidth, which is one of the real measures of a system's performance.

– the Stream Benchmark, Sun's E25K delivered 76 GB/sec bandwidth with our new UltraSPARC IV vs IBM p690 only delivered 27 GB/sec results.

● Sun has increased the contention and bandwidth issues on its architecture

● Sun's interconnect and cross bar switch is slower than IBM.

The Real Story

Inaccurate Claims The Truth

Addressing IBM's Low Level Architectural FUD--The Real Story

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 54

PerformancePerformance

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 55

IBM Claims with PeopleSoft Payroll Benchmark

● p670 vs SF 6800– Claims SPARC is about

half performance of POWER for PeopleSoft

● Old result on Sun -- why do they compare their current machine vs. our old US III result?

● How does IBM explain Sun's nearly 2X's performance on Manugistics Benchmark?

Inaccurate Claim The Reality

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 56

IBM Claims on PeopleSoft BenchmarkPeopleSoft Payroll BenchmarkPeopleSoft Payroll BenchmarkPeopleSoft Payroll Benchmark

15.27 Minutes vs. 20.7 Minutes353,948 checks/hour vs. 261,128 checks/hour16 CPUs vs. 24 CPUs1 Power4 = 2 Sparc38 less Database licenses

F6800 24-way 1.2GHz24GBDB2

P670 16-way 1.5GHz24GBDB2

Database Config

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 57

IBM Claims with SAP S&D Benchmark

● IBM says that Sun showcases this benchmark against them, but it is not apples to apples comparison

● US IV has less performance per CPU than US III

● IBM leads in performance

● Sun has NEVER made the comparison that IBM implies.

● The FACTS are:– IBM is running an older version

4.6C, why hasn't IBM run new SAP version 4.7.

– Sun does not compare across SAP versions, we understand the differences in the versions.

– The new SAP version requires more CPU horsepower even so Sun supports 22% MORE users and is less expensive than the IBM p690. p690 is more expensive then E20K.

Inaccurate Claims The Reality

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 58

What Benchmarketing Tricks Does IBM Play?

Oracle Application 11i Benchmark● IBM Claim: POWER has the highest scalability and

response time– p690: User Count 22,008– V1280: User Count 8,120

● What IBM Does not Tell You?– Beware: IBM mislabeled p690 server as p670 to

make it look cheaper.– Compared a p690 to an old Sun server

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Dig Deeper into Oracle Benchmark Results-Who Really Won?

Oracle Licensing Costs were $880,000 more with IBM Configuration.

Company System

IBM P690 16 $640,000 120 $2,400,000 $3,040,000

Sun V1280 12 $480,000 84 $1,680,000 $2,160,000

Database Processors @ $40K each

DB Licensing Costs

Application Processors @ $20K each

Application Licensing Costs

Total SW Licensing Costs

Total Savings with Sun Comparable Solution: $7,205,269

Company System Users

IBM P690 22008 .48 secs. $7,450,209.00

Sun V1280 8120 .97 secs. $1,124,940.00

Avg. Response Time

Database Server

Application Server

Configuration List Price

1-p690 with 16 CPUs, 256 GB

memory

5-p690s with 24 CPUs, 96 GB

memory

1-V1280 with 12 CPUs, 96 GB

memory

10-V880s with 8 CPUs, 16 MB

memory Report Server: 1

V480 with 4 CPUs, 8GB mem.

IBM Hardware Costs were $6,325,269 more.

*All prices are US list price.

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E20K World Record 36-way SAP-SD 2-Tier 4.70, Oracle Database Benchmark

● ERP Architecture, SAP R/3: 5,050 BM Users– Over 25% Faster than 32-way Itanium2-based 1.5Ghz

– 2.4x Faster than 1.5Ghz HP Superdome

– No Modern Mainframe Results– Requires a Balance of IO, Memory, and Processor

● Sun Fire E20K Server 1.2Ghz 36-way, 288 GB– Sun's New processors Nearly Twice as Fast on a per

Processor Basis– Sun StorEdge T3, Oracle9i

*See Slide“Legal Substantiation”

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 61

● Delivered Bandwidth is Key to Performance– Helps All Apps: Especially DSS, Scientific, etc.– Others Hype Huge Peaks but Deliver Much Less

Delivered Delivered Measured Memory

System #CPUs Large IO BW Small IO/s Memory BW Capacity

25K 72-way 17.7 GB/s <soon> 76 GB/s 576 GB

15K 72-way 12.3 GB/s 1.1M IO/s 57 GB/s 576 GB

12K 36-way 5.7 GB/s 29 GB/s 288 GB

IBM p690 32-way 5.9 GB/s 216K IO/s 27 GB/s 256 GB

● Sun Best Balance of CPU/IO/Network/Memory

Performance: Bandwidth/Capacity Critical Sun Fire 25K Server Twice IBM p690

IBM has Poor Bandwidth Scaling Moving from 16-way to 32-way p690 *Note: IBM’s Stream result 28.6 billion bytes = 27 GB/s^Note: Measured on one I/O Drawer then multiplied by 8 I/O drawers maximum

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Use SPECrateInt/FP – NOT SPECint/fp to Avoid IBM's Creative Tricks

IBM's Method*•Use 1 POWER4 Core on an 8 Core Module• Use Entire L2 Cache without sharing• Use all four L3 Caches from other Cores

IBM's ‘Results’1.3x better Single-CPU SPECint BUT: >Tests outside a CPUs typical area of influence >10x Area >10x Transistors >2.5x Power (assumes 7 cores & 3 L2 caches are off)

Power4 BenchmarkTestbed

32MB

32MB

32MB

32MB

Chip – Chip Communication

1.5MB

Core

1.5MB

1.5MB1.5MB

L3Dir

Resources used in 1-way test shown in red

*Power4 Info: www.spec.org

“Method” Doesn’t Work with Multiple CPU Tests!

L3

L3L3

L3Core

CoreCore CoreCore

Core Core

IBM Turns off all CPUs except 1-CPU, then uses all L3 cache on SPECint, SPECfp Benchmarks

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 63

PartitioningPartitioning

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IBM Partitioning Claims

● IBM is attempting to focus the partitioning discussion on non-essential issues and is ignoring Sun's partitioning leadership with Dynamic System Domains, Solaris Containers (Solaris 9 OS) and now N1 Grid Containers in Solaris 10 OS.

– It is not about dynamic reallocation of CPUs memory, dynamic reallocation of memory only, dynamic reallocation of I/O only, or Linux in partition support as IBM would have you believe.

– It is about: minimizing system overhead, improving manageability, and providing fault isolation, which Sun addresses

June 2004, v1.0 Pg. 65

UNIX Partitioning ExperienceSun IBM pSeries HP HP Fujitsu

LPARs nPars vPars PPAR and XPAR

Static Partitions 1994 2001 2001 2001 1997

1997 N/A CPUs Only 2000

Virtual Partitions 2004 N/A CPUs Only 2000

2000 N/A N/A N/A N/A

2001 N/A N/A N/A N/A

2002 N/A N/A N/A N/A

Dynamic System Domains & Containers

Dynamic Partitions

2002 (AIX 5.2 Only)

2002 (AIX 5.2 Only)

Automated, Load-Balanced Capacity Management

“DR Aware” ISV Application API

External Dynamic Reconfiguration API

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