Server market takes a tumble

Davey Winder
Friday, 05 December 2008 14:44

IT Industry - Market

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.

EPIC revenue, however, experienced growth of some 16.3 percent but RISC was hammered to the tune of 15.5 percent over the same quarter last year.

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.