Server revenue decline worst in 13 years

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 02 June 2009 18:44

IT Industry - Market

IDC also reports that IBM grabbed second place, with 28.9 percent of total revenue in EMEA, driven by “outstanding growth in its RISC-based Power Systems family as the transition from the System p and System i families of servers takes place at full speed.”

Of the rest, IDC says Sun Microsystems demonstrated a “higher degree of resilience”, with a rate of annual decline significantly lower than other vendors, at 30.7 percent, with sales mostly driven by its RISC-based SPARC Enterprise servers, while Dell's family of PowerEdge servers took 18.8 percent of all x86 server shipments and 17.1% of all x86 server revenue in EMEA in the first quarter of 2009.

According to IDC, Fujitsu Siemens' CISC-based BS2000/OSD servers continued to be an important source of revenue for the vendor, with 31.3 percent  of its total sales, while its industry standard family, Primergy, was its main revenue generating product, with 57.8 percent, but it declined faster than its mainframes year on year.