IBM maintained the No. 1 spot in the server blade market, with 40.9 percent market share, while HP maintained the No. 2 position with 38.6 percent share, ... Dell's share of the blade market decreased to 6.5 percent in 2Q05.

This is their big splash going into the x86 space,

The new server line gives Sun a broader approach to the x86 market,

Sun's vision of computing is a promising one because it will allow a great variety of clients to participate on networks without the prior installation of special protocol stacks and LAN-specific software drivers on each client machine, ... Instead, the software drivers can be delivered via Java technology, on a just-in-time basis, as needed. Interoperability will be enhanced, and that interoperability will be good for end users both in the office and at home.

You can build an entire ecosystem out of Linux and open source,

A lot of people thought Unix servers were going away, but not only are they not going away, they're playing an incredibly important role in the data center to handle mission-critical applications