InternetGartner: Server Market Still Healthy Overall in Q2

Dell and IBM renew their server efforts, while Sun struggles and HP hums right along.

IBM and Dell were the big winners in the second quarter server business, while Hewlett-Packard continued to execute well and Sun lost ground, according to Gartner's second quarter 2008 report on the worldwide server report. Overall, the market was up 12.2 percent in terms of units, but just 5.7 percent in terms of dollars. Worldwide server revenue totaled $13.8 billion for the second quarter and unit shipments 2.3 million. IBM (NYSE: IBM) maintained its revenue lead thanks to strong sales on the high end, with its System p Unix servers and System z mainframes. It gained a small amount of market share, mostly at HP's (NYSE: HPQ) expense, to grab 31.2 percent of the revenue in Q2 but only 13.2 percent of the unit share, putting it in third place. This is a reflection of the fact that System p and System z servers are very high-end machines, costing in the six- to seven-digit range. So these don't sell in the quantities of a single- or dual-socket $3,000 server. In recent months, IBM has refreshed both System p and System z, which may have led to pent-up demand. RELATED ARTICLES IBM Moves Further Into Global Markets Cloudy Outlook on Sun After Grim Numbers HP Follows Dell in New Business Laptop Push HP Rescues Stocks Oracle Server Rollout Builds on BEA Buy For more stories on this topic: HP... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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