Who’s the hardware king?
In other categories, Sun Microsystems Overall, worldwide server shipments grew by 9 Jeffrey Hewitt, research director at Gartner, said in a statement that Lines of RISC-Itanium Unix architectures fell by 6 percent in In this Unix space, Sun, IBM and HP But in total server revenues, IBM lead the worldwide server market at $4 In server shipments, however, HP surged back to the top, even though it Meanwhile, Sun Microsystems continued to challenge with “significant
IBM sits atop the heap in most categories, according
to results tallied by Gartner for the third quarter 2006.
continued to
come on strong while Hewlett-Packard held its crown.
percent in the third quarter of 2006 compared to the same time last year, the research firm said. Revenues the world over totaled $13 billion for the quarter. Worldwide
server shipments reached just over 2 million units.
blade servers and x86 servers continue to produce the highest growth levels
within the overall market. “Both of these server types show ongoing
installation growth at the front and middle of the Web server tiers.”
shipments for the quarter, Gartner continued, but grew slightly in revenue
at 0.6 percent. retained their
positions from the same quarter last year, but their revenue
positions reshuffled with IBM taking the lead, Sun in second place and HP in
third.
billion, to capture 33.7 percent of the server market. HP, which took in $3.2 billion in
the quarter, held on to the number two slot with 25.3 percent.
Dell kept the
third slot with $1.4 billion in revenues, for a 10.8 percent share; Sun
nipped at Dell’s heels with $1.3 billion, or 10.1 percent.
slipped by 0.5 percent in share. The share gap between it and second-place
Dell dropped 0.8 percent for the quarter, Gartner said. Overall, HP’s year-on-year shipment growth was 7.2 percent in total.
annual growth in both shipments and revenue for the period,” Gartner said,
6.4 and 24.7 percent, respectively.
Other standout stories were Dell, which posted growth in both shipments
(10.5 percent) and revenue (10.9 percent),
while the No. 5 global vendor, Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens, fell 5.9 percent in
shipments and 8.6 percent in revenue for the quarter.
