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| by Davey Winder | |
| Friday, 05 December 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Interestingly, when you look at non-x86 servers compared
to x86 servers, you can see how the former was shedding revenue like a
snake sheds its skin with a decline of 6.3 percent over the same
quarter last year and units down by 16 percent.Featured Whitepaper
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Revenue from x86 servers declined only slightly, down 1.7 percent. All the main operating systems suffered revenue losses, apart from two that is. Windows growth was described as being 'quasi-flat' and IBM's z OS up by 11 percent. Unix did badly, down 5.7 percent. Bladed servers did very well overall, up a whopping 37.5 percent with revenue approaching half a billion dollars US. Sales of both pedestal and rack servers were down though. When it comes to vendors, HP performed best with a 2.4 percent growth mainly coming from the industry standard Proliant line accounting for 67.3 per cent of total revenue. IBM pretty much stood still as far as revenue share is concerned, but Sun Microsystems lost server market share compared to the same quarter a year ago. Dell enjoyed an annual revenue increase thanks to a good performance from the x86 PowerEdge servers. |
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