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Sun Startup Essentials pricing

I was accepted into Sun’s Startup Essentials program today (nearly a month after I applied). As promised, I’m blogging the pricing.

The discounts on hardware are pretty good. There’s one low-end server that has no discount, but most products are in the 30%-50% off range. One server, a $70k behemoth, is a whopping 66% off.

Only servers and workstations are offered as part of the program. If you’re getting a workstation, you can add on things like monitors at a discount, but you can’t buy the monitors directly. That’s too bad, because a $995 24-inch LCD is only $470 under the program. Sun should consider selling these by themselves. What a great branding win it would be to have developers at startups everywhere sitting behind dual 24inch monitors staring at a Sun logo all day.

Enough analysis; here’s the pricing.

I’m not including all the specs below; the specs that are included are there just to help differentiate between two systems of the same name. I’m also not including all the configuration options. You can add things like keyboards and monitors, but not change hard drives and RAM.

There may be typos in the table below—I transcribed it by hand. So these prices may not be 100% accurate and of course Sun might change them at any time. In any event, this price list should be enough to give you an idea of what you can get under the program and the types of discounts you’ll see.

Product Retail Startup Discount
Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server 1.8GHz $945.00 $945.00 0.00%
Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server 2.2GHz $1,645.00 $1,245.00 24.32%
Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server 2.6GHz $2,795.00 $1,865.00 33.27%
Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server 1.8GHz $1,595.00 $1,375.00 13.79%
Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server 2.2GHz $3,295.00 $2,295.00 30.35%
Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server 2.6GHz $5,895.00 $4,095.00 30.53%
Sun Fire X4100 M2 Server 1.8GHz $2,595.00 $2,385.00 8.09%
Sun Fire X4100 M2 Server 2.4GHz $5,795.00 $3,945.00 31.92%
Sun Fire X4100 M2 Server 2.6GHz $7,995.00 $5,605.00 29.89%
Sun Fire X4100 M2 Server 2.8GHz $9,395.00 $5,910.00 37.09%
Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server 1.8GHz $2,995.00 $2,400.00 19.87%
Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server 2.4GHz $7,795.00 $5,365.00 31.17%
Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server 2.8GHz $9,795.00 $5,950.00 39.25%
Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server 1.8GHz $13,895.00 $9,360.00 32.64%
Sun Fire X4500 Server 2.6GHz $69,995.00 $24,000.00 65.71%
Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server 4x2.6GHz $27,995.00 $15,245.00 45.54%
Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server 8x2.6GHz $51,995.00 $25,395.00 51.16%
Sun Fire T1000 Server 2GB RAM $3,995.00 $2,420.00 39.42%
Sun Fire T1000 Server 6 Core 8GB RAM $6,445.00 $3,470.00 46.16%
Sun Fire T1000 Server 8 Core 8GB RAM $9,945.00 $5,795.00 41.73%
Sun Fire T1000 Server 8 Core 16GB RAM $14,445.00 $8,200.00 43.23%
Sun Fire T2000 Server 6 Core $11,885.00 $5,235.00 55.95%
Sun Fire T2000 Server 8 Core 8GB RAM $14,595.00 $7,100.00 51.35%
Sun Fire T2000 Server 8 Core 16GB RAM $18,545.00 $8,430.00 54.54%
Sun Fire T2000 Server 8 Core 32GB RAM $29,445.00 $13,245.00 55.02%
Sun Ultra 25 Workstation, XVR-300 $2,895.00 $2,200.00 24.01%
Sun Ultra 25 Workstation, XVR-2500 $3,995.00 $2,675.00 33.04%
Sun Ultra 45 Workstation, XVR-300 $3,695.00 $2,405.00 34.91%
Sun Ultra 45 Workstation, XVR-2500 $4,595.00 $2,880.00 37.32%
Sun Ultra 45 Workstation, XVR-300,2GB $6,795.00 $3,010.00 55.70%
Sun Ultra 20 M2 Workstation, 512MB RAM $995.00 $890.00 10.55%
Sun Ultra 20 M2 Workstation, 1GB RAM $1,495.00 $1,250.00 16.39%
Sun Ultra 20 M2 Workstation, 2GB RAM $2,795.00 $1,915.00 31.48%
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation, Model 2210 $2,795.00 $1,665.00 40.43%
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation, Model 2214 $6,295.00 $4,225.00 32.88%
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation, Model 2218 $14,195.00 $8,885.00 37.41%

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