Sentence examples for sun system from inspiring English sources

In contrast to the I.B.M. mainframe gaming machine, the Sun system is intended to offer a new level of performance to the cable and telephone carriers intent on deploying advanced interactive television systems.

Tech chief Navarrow Wright switched BET's Web site from a Sun system to Microsoft's after trolling through the data.

Yet the cheap system processed a trade in 50 milliseconds, one-fourth the time needed by the Sun system.

Sun officials claim that in this case, IBM is using benchmarks for Starfire that are a year old and that a Sun system with the latest UltraSparc chips in it can send an S80 packing in short order.

The Ebay disaster may give Microsoft or IBM a chance to woo Ebay away from Sun. Ebay already uses Windows NT on its front-end servers, which receive requests from users and pass them on to the Sun system.

It is developed under Solaris envronment on SUN system, using CGI-PERL.

Departing from I.B.M.'s traditionally restrained approach to advertising, the ads proclaim that "It's easy to eclipse a Sun," then go on to offer side-by-side comparisons of I.B.M. and Sun systems.

It could also give I.B.M. more strength in competing against Oracle, which has sold its database software on top of Sun systems for years.

Sun, not Microsoft, has become the clear loser from the rise of Linux, the open-source operating system, which many customers are using to replace their old Sun systems.For a long time Mr McNealy was in denial.

"A number of their important customers, in particular on the financial services side, have begun replacing low-end Sun systems with Linux systems," said Laura Conigliaro, a financial analyst at Goldman , Sachs

Sun systems run its own Unix operating system, Solaris, and its own microprocessors.