Gartner: First-quarter server market declines record

Beijing Time June 2 morning news, according to foreign media reports, market research company Gartner said global server revenue fell 24% in the first quarter of 2009, sales fell 24.2%, which is the biggest decline in the server industry's history. Jeffrey Hewitt, vice president of Gartner Research, said, "The downward trend in the fourth quarter of last year Jeffrey Huit to the beginning of this year." Although the server industry was expected to fall, it fell more than expected. Global economic weakness has hit all types of servers. x86 server sales fell 23.9%, revenue fell 27.1%;unix server sales and revenue fell by 31.3% and 20.4% respectively. "All regional server markets are sliding.　　Eastern Europe has the biggest decline, with sales and revenues down 41.3% and 47.7% respectively; the Asia-Pacific region has the smallest decline, sales and revenues are down 12.7% and 13.5% respectively; U.S. and Western European sales are down about 27% per cent, with revenues falling 21.2% and 33.8% respectively. In the first quarter of 2009, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sun and Fujitsu/Fujitsu-Siemens revenues both fell in double digits.　　IBM server revenue was slightly more than $3 billion trillion, down 20.4%, with a market share of 30.7%, up 1.4% from a year earlier. Hewitt said the server market would be quite weak in 2009 and the global server market could not resume growth 2010 years ago. (Zhi Xiang)