"Quarterly sales of servers running the Linux operating system topped $1 billion for the first time during the third quarter of 2004, analyst company IDC reported Wednesday. With year-over-year revenue from Linux server sales up 42.6 percent, Linux accounted for more than 9 percent of the $11.5 billion in servers sold worldwide during the quarter, which ended September 30, the research firm says."
According to the IDC figures reported here by IDG News Service, IBM is still on top:
"When measured by revenue, IBM remained the No. 1 server vendor with $3.66 billion in revenue, or 31.7 percent of the server market. Hewlett-Packard was second with $3.09 billion in revenue.
"Dell was the fastest-growing server vendor, with revenue jumping 14.1 percent from its year-earlier figures. The company finished the quarter with $1.17 billion in server sales, only slightly less than No. 3 server vendor, Sun Microsystems, whose revenue for the quarter was $1.18 billion, up 0.1 percent from year-earlier figures."
