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Server sales figures signal market shift
News Worldwide server sales grew to $14.4bn in the fourth quarter, up 5.1 percent year-on-year, while unit shipments posted a more modest growth rate. During the quarter, Linux server revenues rose 35.6 percent to $1.3bn and accounted for nearly 10...
[February 28, 2005, 9:25]
Server sales see sustained yet modest growth
News Worldwide server sales are continuing to show solid growth, according to the latest figures from analyst group IDC. In the fourth calendar quarter of 2006 — the last quarter for which figures are available — server volumes were flat compared with...
[February 28, 2007, 13:36]
Server sales grow 10 percent in 2003
News The growth in server sales during the first three months of the year outpaced that of the overall PC market. Computer manufacturers saw unit sales of servers jump by just over 10 percent worldwide during the first quarter, according to a new report...
[April 28, 2003, 14:03]
Server sales hit the skids
News The server market followed PCs into the high-tech slump in the first quarter of 2001, with worldwide sales of $13.3bn representing a 4 percent drop from a year ago, research firm IDC will report Wednesday.
[June 12, 2001, 14:11]
Server sales climb solidly
News Global revenue from server sales climbed to $11.5bn (£6.4bn) in the second quarter, according to new data from Gartner. We saw increased activity in the x86-64 market, as well as continued strong sales in the low-end server market," Mike McLaughlin...
[August 26, 2004, 9:40]
Server sales forecast cut
News For the year, IDC said worldwide server sales will decline by 5 percent from 2001. Overall, after recovering from the economic flu of 2001 and 2002, the server market should begin to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 3.8 percent over the...
[June 14, 2002, 15:31]
VA Linux adjusts to vanishing server sales
News The Fremont, California-based company is in the midst of changing its name to reflect the change to sales of its SourceForge software for helping companies with collaborative programming projects. VA Linux Systems reported a loss of $55m (£38.5m...
[November 21, 2001, 9:21]
IBM leads in worldwide server sales
News Recent numbers from market researcher Dataquest show IBM is still the top dog with regard to server sales worldwide, pocketing $13.74bn (£9.44bn) in revenue for 2000. Dataquest's report on the status of the server market in the US shows that Sun...
[February 26, 2001, 9:06]
Social networking driving server sales
News Social networking is pushing up server sales despite the increasing adoption of virtualisation technology, according to Sun. Virtualisation squeezes more computing muscle out of fewer physical servers so, as its use becomes more widespread, it...
[October 5, 2007, 8:35]
Worldwide server sales continue to fall
News Server sales continue to tumble, with worldwide revenue falling 30.1 percent in the second quarter to $9.8bn (£6bn). According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, server revenue fell for the fourth consecutive quarter to the lowest sales...
[September 3, 2009, 10:08]
Intel server sales on the rise, says report
News While acknowledging improvement in Intel server sales, IDC isn't ready to declare a bull market yet. Third quarter sales grew for the first time since early last year, reaching $5bn in revenue. Intel servers are important products for PC makers...
[October 11, 2002, 15:08]
European server sales continue recovery
News Sales of IBM servers increased 10.1 percent to $3.2bn (£2.03bn), giving Big Blue 30.4 percent of the $10.6bn market. Sun's second calendar quarter typically is strong because it's the final quarter of the company's fiscal year, but in 2003 Sun...
[September 2, 2003, 12:40]
UK server revenues sink despite sales surge
News High-end server sales remain relatively strong in Europe, with a decline in average server value of only 10 percent on average across the region, IDC said. A study from researchers IDC released on Tuesday found that server unit shipments for Q1...
[September 3, 2003, 10:40]
Sales rocket for Microsoft SharePoint Server
News UK sales grew by 38 percent in the financial year 2007, compared to worldwide growth of 35 percent according to Rob Gray, SharePoint product marketing manager for the UK. Microsoft on Friday said that its collaboration engine, SharePoint Server...
[July 27, 2007, 15:21]
SQL Server 2005 Runs Faster Ad Hoc Queries for Microsoft IT Sales Analysis Support
White Papers The Microsoft IT Corporate Strategy Planning and Analysis group provides a central clearinghouse for sales information with a 500 GigaByte (GB) data mart. When the group began designing a new ad hoc query application to run against the relational...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
Intel predicts good server sales
News The biggest surprise for the quarter is that server sales are going better than anticipated, said Andy Bryant, the company's chief financial officer. Microprocessor sales will follow a seasonal pattern, the company added, meaning sales will...
[March 8, 2002, 12:31]
Low end server sales boost Compaq's market lead
News Compaq has stretched its lead in the UK server market with a 47 per cent share in the first quarter of this year, according to IDC research figures. The statistics are a boost to the company's server division which is next week due to announce...
[May 1, 1997, 11:36]
HP enlists Quantum to drive server sales
News Hewlett-Packard (HP) has surged ahead in its attempts to keep up with server market leader Compaq by striking a deal with storage manufacturer Quantum to install 9Gb hard drives across its entire range of NetServers.
[January 20, 1997, 14:48]
Sars dampens server sales
News Asia Pacific server revenue in the second quarter saw only moderate growth of eight percent compared to the same period last year, with sales hit by Sars and weak economies in developed countries. Asia Pacific sales, excluding Japan, totalled...
[September 2, 2003, 12:45]
IBM weathers server carnage
News In the overall market, IBM sales dropped 6.1 percent to $2.8bn, but its market share rose 6.5 percent. Servers are the powerful computers that handle chores on corporate networks such as keeping track of all the sales of airplane tickets.
[December 10, 2001, 11:29]
