IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker indicated growth for nearly all classes of the network computers, with a whopping $10.8 billion in overall revenue representing 2 percent growth in the third quarter of 2003. Overall shipments of servers worldwide grew almost 20 percent, driven primarily by demand for lower-end, lower-cost servers that are increasingly being used in clusters by businesses with tightened IT budgets, IDC said. Overall, vendors ranked as follows: IBM, HP, Sun, Dell and Fujitsu.
Linux Servers Lead Market in Worldwide Growth
Posted by: Jay Lyman November 26, 2003 10:00 AMIDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker indicated growth for nearly all classes of the network computers, with a whopping $10.8 billion in overall revenue representing 2 percent growth in the third quarter of 2003. Overall shipments of servers worldwide grew almost 20 percent, driven primarily by demand for lower-end, lower-cost servers that are increasingly being used in clusters by businesses with tightened IT budgets, IDC said. Overall, vendors ranked as follows: IBM, HP, Sun, Dell and Fujitsu.