Gartner: Third-quarter global server market revenue declines 15.5%

Beijing time December 1 morning news, according to foreign media reports, Gartner said today that the third quarter of the global server market for 10.7 billion U.S. dollars, began to stabilise, IBM maintained a weak lead for HP. According to Gartner, IBM's global server market share was 31.7% per cent in the third quarter, compared with a slight increase over a year earlier, with HP's market share of 30.2% per cent, roughly unchanged from the same period last year.　　Dell, Sun and Fujitsu 第三、四、五位. Global server market revenue fell 15.5% to 10.7 billion in the third quarter from a year earlier, but it grew 10.2% from the second quarter.　　Jeffrey Hewitt, vice president of Gartner Research, said in a statement that the server market "showed signs of stabilisation at the end of the year" Jeffrey Huit. In addition to Sun, the other four server vendors business revenue growth in the second quarter. Sun's business has been severely affected by the uncertainty associated with Oracle's takeover deals, with server revenues falling 32.3% per cent from a year earlier, well above rivals.　　Sun is still the largest UNIX server vendor by sales, but its lead has been reduced by about half of its sales. HP surpassed Sun as the second largest UNIX server vendor after IBM, according to revenue. HP UNIX server market share increased from 28% in the same period last year to 29.3%,sun market share fell from 29.2% to 24.2%. IBM's market share increased from 36.4% to 40.9%.　　UNIX server market size of 2.6 billion U.S. dollars, down 21.2% year-on-year. Industrial standard servers are better. x86 server revenue has fallen 11.4% to 6.3 billion dollars, and HP still has an absolute advantage, followed by Dell, IBM, Fujitsu and NEC. (Zhi Xiang)