Sun to Cut Price of Web Server Software

Sun Microsystems Inc. said it will cut the price of its Web server software by 37% in a bid to take market share from Microsoft Corp.’s competing platform, which has suffered a series of high-profile security breaches.

Palo Alto-based Sun said it will cut the price of its IPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition 6.0 to $940 per computer processor from $1,495 for any customer changing from a competing platform.

Sun said it also will make available software that will allow users to run pages written for Microsoft’s server software format on that company’s Internet Information Services architecture on Sun’s platform without modification.

Sun shares fell 27 cents to close at $9.60 on Nasdaq.