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November 2, 2009

IBM Touts 235 New Switchers From Sun, HP

IBM is pleased to report that it has snagged 235 customers who moved critical business workloads to IBM servers and storage systems from Sun and HP in the third quarter. Essentially, we're talking about Unix, moving from Sun and HP's Unix flavors over to IBM's AIX.

The latest numbers represent action from IBM's three-year-old Migration Factory program that helps clients move to IBM systems--all told, nearly 2,000 customers have switched to IBM servers and storage, primarily from Sun and HP, including approximately 400 from Sun and 200 from HP this year, IBM says. (IBM does not report how many IBM AIX customers moved from IBM to its competitors, but presumably there's been at least a handful.)

In October, Oracle bragged up its latest benchmarks, calling out IBM. Oracle, of course, is looking to complete an acquisition of Sun, and oh, by the way, IBM says, 84 clients formerly running Sun-based workloads moved over to IBM Power Systems in the third quarter.

To put dollars on the third-quarter action, IBM says it increased the revenue generated from competitive Power Systems displacements of both Sun and HP customers to over $150 million in the third quarter. This amounts to more than $400 million in sales from UNIX competitive takeouts this year.

(I've said it before, if only IBM i had some direct competitors!)

--Chris Maxcer, news editor

Posted by cmaxcer at November 2, 2009 10:42 AM