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After four years of continual bad news, the sun has finally broken through the clouds for Sun Microsystems as it totally outshone its rivals in the global server market during the second quarter of 2006, according to statistics from research group IDC.
According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Sun was the only
server vendor among the top four to post both a revenue and market
share increase both of which came at the expense of its three rivals,
IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell.
The IDC stats show that Sun posted an impressive year on year 15.5%
server revenue increase for the quarter, which translated into a global
market share increase of 1.7% to 12.9%.
The Sun result was in stark contrast to its three competitors. Market
leader IBM suffered a revenue decline of 2.2% and market share loss of
0.9% to 31%. HP revenue declined 1.7% and lost 0.7% market share to
27.8%. Dell's revenue dropped by 1.3% and its market share went down
0.2% to 10.3%.
Dell, which has been having a horror run of news recently, now finds in
the number four spot well behind Sun, after being number three in the
previous quarter
According to IDC research director enterprise server research, Steve
Josselyn, the move of Sun into the commodity AMD processor space has
contributed to the company's growth, even though its traditional
proprietary SPARC platform still provides the lion's share of the
revenue.
"Sun continued its strong server revenue performance in consecutive
quarters and regained the number 3 overall market share position," said
Josselyn. "The clear majority of Sun's server revenue is generated from
UltraSPARC-based systems, but the growth in the company's Opteron-based
products are having a positive impact."
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