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IBM and HP Lead, Linux Now at 13%, SOA and Virtualization Drive Server Sales

Windows Servers Growing Faster than Linux Servers for First Time
By Linux News Desk
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May 29, 2007 05:45 PM EDT
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Linux servers were up 10% to $1.6 billion and now represent 12.7% of all server revenue. Windows was at 38.8%, adding 1.9 points of share at $4.8 billion, up 10.4%.

In another upset, IDC said that this was the first time since it started tracking Linux server spending in 1998 that Windows server revenues grew faster than Linux server revenues.

Blades
IDC figures total blade revenues, including x86, EPOC and RISC, were up 29.7% year-over-year to $768 million, 6.2% of the total market. HP got 40.9% and IBM 35.2%, with HP growing 49.2%, translating into 3.3 points of share.

Gartner wades in and says IBM blade shipments increased 12.7% and revenue 15.5% but it still lost share to HP.

HPC
Armed with IDC numbers, HP claims to first in HPC, with 33.7% of the money. It notes that the spending in the sector was down 4.7% quarter-over-quarter, but it grew 3.7%. It also claims to be first in both Opteron revenues and units and Linux with more than 35% of both the revenue and shipments and if you combine Window, Linux and Unix, which represent 97% of all shipped, then it owns that, too.

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Virtualization News Desk 05/25/07 02:41:18 PM EDT

Total worldwide server sales were up 4.5% to $12.86 billion, Gartner says. IDC puts it at a seemingly rosier 4.9%, which is actually only $12.4 billion, the best first quarter since 2001, it said. IDC has total units up 4.6%, but says it still down significantly from 1Q06 growth. Gartner has total shipments up 6% to 2.1 million units. Gartner says IBM pushed Sun out of the Unix limelight with revenues up 14.3% to $1.26 billion while Sun dropped 1.5% to $1.17 billion. IDC gives IBM 29.6% of Unix revenues. Gartner has RISC-Itanium Unix server shipments falling 15.5% in the quarter and down 1.5% in revenue.