Like Apple in the PC market, Sun is destined to be the bottom feeder of the server market.
The latest stats in the server revenue/share wars are below:
IBM, H-P top Gartner server report
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25, 2004 (AFX-UK via COMTEX) --
The latest results on the server market from research firm Gartner show IBM and Hewlett-Packard dueling for the top spots in terms of revenue and shipments.
Gartner analyst Mike McLaughlin said worldwide server revenue in the second quarter reached $11.5 billion, up almost 8 percent from $10.7 billion during the same period a year ago. Server shipments climbed to 1.6 million units, a 24.5-percent increase from 1.28 million units last year.
The Gartner report placed IBM as the No. 1 company for worldwide server revenue, with $3.5 billion in the second quarter of the year, up from $3.2 billion in the year-ago period.
H-P trailed IBM in second place with $3.15 billion in server sales, growing from $3 billion in last year's second-quarter. The rest of the top five vendors in revenue terms were Sun Microsystems with $1.5 billion, Dell , with $1.13 billion, and Fujitsu/FSC with $518 million.
All of the top five vendors showed second-quarter revenue growth over a year ago, with Dell reporting the largest percentage gain as is sales increased 20 percent from $944 million.
H-P was able to claim the top spot in unit shipments, with about 463,000 servers sold, a 22.7-percent gain from the almost 378,000 shipment is reported in last year's second-quarter.
Dell took second place in shipments, with 337,000 units, while IBM came in third with 239,000 shipments. Sun sold more than 90,000 servers for fourth place, and Fujitsu/FSC came in fifth with 47,000 units. All of the top five vendors saw shipments grow over the year-ago period.
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