Unisys, MS team up to woo Enterprises away from Unix
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Unisys and Microsoft next month will launch a joint program aimed at luring enterprises away from Unix/RISC platforms and over to systems powered by Intel Corp. chips and running Windows, according to Unisys officials.
In a study conducted in April surveying 16,000 Unix systems users, Unisys found that 35 percent of businesses running Sun Microsystems Inc.'s SPARC/Solaris environments were interested in migrating to another platform, said Bill Jefferis, director of migration services at the Blue Bell, Pa., company. Analyst reports have backed that up, and Unisys plans to have an analyst firm conduct another one, he said.
The moves are being fueled by a number of issues, including the desire to move to a less expensive platform than Unix, the desire to consolidate their data center resources and worries about Sun's financial situation., he said.