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IBM boasts victory over Sun

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IBM said it has scored a victory for its Internet server business by beating

out Sun Microsystems for a new contract for servers to be installed at Network

Solutions, which manages most of the world’s Web-site addresses. Network

Solutions has more than 10 million online addresses registered in its database

and handles several billion Web-address queries every day.

Network Solutions said it chose IBM’s machines because they could handle

the increasing queries from Web browsers, said Network Solutions registry senior

vice president and general manager Bruce Chovnick. "IBM seemed to perform

better in the type of applications we're running." At Sun, vice president

of product marketing for computer systems Shahin Khan said, the one IBM contract

win does not mean much. "It's not on my radar. What is on my radar are the

IBM mainframes we're replacing."

The IBM sale to Network Solutions, however, is important to IBM’s sales

force, which is struggling to ignite demand for the company’s high-end

computers. First-quarter sales of IBM computer hardware fell 12 percent. Overall

sales fell 4.8 percent to $19.35 billion.

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