Sun sees drop in server market
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In a report released Monday, the research firm noted that Sun Microsystems saw its server revenue drop 32.3 percent and unit shipment dip 38 .1 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same period last year.
IBM experienced 12.3 percent decline in revenue growth, though it clocked the highest revenue in the market for the quarter at US$3.4 billion. Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu saw their revenue decline 15.1 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively. Dell Computer was the only vendor with a single-digit revenue decline of 5.1 percent among the top 5 vendors, Gartner said.
Compared to the same quarter last year, overall server revenue worldwide dropped 15.5 percent while shipment dipped 17.1 percent in the third quarter.
Despite the decline, Jeffrey Hewitt, Gartner's research vice president, said in the report the server market was "stabilizing" as both revenue and shipment indicated sequential revenue growth.
For more, read "Sun sets lowest in server market" at ZDNet Asia.
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Sun's pain is caused by
M$ agents activated in the EC that delayed Oracle's aquisition.
Linux Geek1st Dec 2009 -
Actually Sun's pain is caused by
no one wanting to buy Sun, instead opting for the better server, Windows2008!
John Zern1st Dec 2009 -
Rep and I are laughing....
We knew Oracle and Sun would be a disaster. We laughed out loud when the merger was announced and we are laughing even louder now. Meanwhile, I have thousands and thousands of Dell servers running Windows 2008 R2. My MCSE's stand at full attention when I walk into the office and I demand full respect for my deep insights into destroying all remnants of UNIX over the past 10 years here.
Mike Cox1st Dec 2009
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