"IBM widened its lead in the worldwide server market in 2003 at the expense of Sun Microsystems, making particular gains in the Unix server market, new figures show. Server revenue for IBM grew 10% to $14.8 billion from 2002 to 2003, outpacing the overall market's 5% growth, market research firm Gartner said Wednesday. IBM increased its share 1.7 percentage points to 32% of the $46.1 billion total market," reports CNet.
"In contrast, No 3 server seller Sun saw its revenue decline 15% to $5.4 billion and its share drop 2.8 percentage points to 11.8%. No 2 seller Hewlett-Packard grew 5% to $12.5 billion."
On Unix and Linux:
"The overall Unix server market shrank 4% to $16.7 billion, while the Linux server market grew 90% to $2.8 billion, Gartner said. HP was the top seller of Linux servers, Gartner found, with sales that increased 60% to $927 million. IBM passed Dell for second place, with Big Blue rising 60% to $552 million and Dell rising 40% to $521 million."
Comment: Interesting to see the world's biggest computer company, IBM, still gets 96.3% of its server business from non-Linux systems.
