The Sun Enterprise 3000 server enables you to deploy sophisticated business applications with the kind of performance and reliability previously available only in very expensive large-scale systems. For running the new generation of network-based business programs - SAP R/3, Oracle Financials, PeopleSoft Human Resources - you need application servers with tremendous network throughput and processing power, plus very high levels of availability. The Enterprise 3000 is the first server to offer all that in a compact, easily affordable package.The Sun Enterprise 3000 server is well suited for business-critical applications because it gives you all of the industry-leading reliability features found in Sun's high-end servers, such as the ability to tolerate power-supply failures with no system disruption, or to service most components while the system continues to run. Sun Management Center software simplifies system management, lowering your total cost of ownership with an easy-to-use interface and proactive hardware failure prediction. These reliability features - unique for systems in this price class - are not available even in most large-scale systems. As an application server, the Sun Enterprise 3000 server delivers unprecedented performance.