Fujitsu to launch PRIMEQUEST

Fujitsu to launch PRIMEQUEST

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

PT Fujitsu Systems Indonesia (FSI), the local affiliation of
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu Limited, will launch new high-end
internet servers, or PRIMEQUESTs, on the Indonesian market in
June.

"The products will provide mainframe-like data-centers on a
standard open Intel platform," said Masaya Nakahara, who is in
charge of marketing Fujitsu products for countries in Southeast
Asia.

The mission-critical IA (Intel Architecture) servers, which
start at US$200,000 each, were officially unveiled in San
Francisco in early April.

Nakahara said the new servers were equipped with Red Hat Linux
operating systems and would be available in June. Those that
supported Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition and
Novell's SuSE Linux would become available in September, he said.

The servers that are intended to replace legacy mainframes
were designed to support up to 32 Intel Itanium-2 processors of
1.5 GHz and 1.6 GHz and have up to 512 gigabytes of memory.

Nakahara said that even though sales of the Itanium chip
abandoned by IBM had been sagging, Fujitsu was confident in their
long-term viability.

"Major vendors such as Microsoft, Red Hat and Oracle are
committed to building applications for the Itanium," he said.

President director of FSI, Mikuni Takafumi, said he expected
domestic sales of these products to reach upwards of $1 million
this year.

"The market for PRIMEQUEST is huge, especially in the
telecommunications, financial services and manufacturing
sectors," said Takafumi, whose company booked sales of $10
million last year.

Nakahara said that Fujitsu, which had global sales of $44
billion, expected worldwide sales of PRIMEQUEST to reach 10,000
units during the next three years.

He expressed optimism that based on these projections, Fujitsu
could increase its share in the high-end server market, dominated
by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun, from 7 percent to 15 percent.
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