IBM deal with Sun: Who will buy Fujitsu servers?

As we have confirmed in our post "Another scoop in a bowl: SUN into IBM" that IBM and SUN is going to take place very soon. This is not only frightening to Microsoft but Fujitsu too as the future of SPARC system architecture is getting vague.

A Fujitsu America executive commented on this

"We continue to sell server-based products, we want to assure all our customers ... that product we sell in the SPARC line of products we will continue selling and maintaining them,"
Farhat Ali told Reuters, effectively saying that anyone who's already purchased SPARC-architecture servers from Fujitsu need not worry about long-term customer support. That isn't exactly saying the company will go forth with plans that seemed very ambitious just months ago, including beefing up its midrange SPARC server line.

Last October, Fujitsu announced the availability of its new mid-range T5440 Enterprise server, intended to bring SPARC architecture closer to the "M" part of the "SMB" customer base. It's a surprisingly high-performance server priced at around $45,000, designed at the time to take IBM head-on. IBM, being a principal provider of Linux, has a bigger interest in a lack of Solaris.