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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 9, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 23
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Breaking News -
Platforms:
IBM Gains Server Revenue Share In
Key Market Segments
IBM announced that the company gained world wide server factory revenue
market
share in all key segments in the first quarter of calendar 2003, as compared
to the same quarter last year, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server
Tracker. HP, which merged with Compaq in May, 2002, lost significant share in
overall servers, x86 servers, UNIX servers, Linux servers and blade servers
compared with the same period last year, when HP and Compaq were separate
companies.
IBM was the among the fastest growing vendors in terms of its market share
gains in the overall server market, the UNIX server market, the x86 server
market and in the blade server market.
In overall servers, IBM gained 2.5 points of worldwide revenue share in the
first quarter, outgrowing Dell's 1.5 points of share and outpacing HP, which
lost 2.6 points of share
In UNIX servers, IBM was the only vendor among the top three UNIX server
vendors to gain market share, adding 5 points of worldwide revenue share in
the first quarter. HP lost 1.2 points of share and Sun lost 1.0 points of
share.
In x86 servers, IBM gained 1.8 points of worldwide revenue share, outpacing
Dell's growth of 1.5 points of share. IBM has now outgrown Dell in each of
past four quarters. In Q103, HP lost 4.0 points of share in the x86 server
market.
In Linux servers, IBM gained 0.8 points of share, while HP lost 4.5 points
of
worldwide revenue share in the first quarter.
In the hottest segment of the server market, blade servers, IBM gained the
number one spot, capturing 24.5 percent of worldwide revenue market share. In
contrast, HP lost 40 points of share.
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