IBM and HP Lead, Linux Now at 13%, SOA and Virtualization Drive Server Sales

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Total worldwide server sales were up 4.5% to $12.86 billion, Gartner says. IDC puts it at a seemingly rosier 4.9%, which is actually only $12.4 billion, the best first quarter since 2001, it said. IDC has total units up 4.6%, but says it still down significantly from 1Q06 growth. Gartner has total shipments up 6% to 2.1 million units. Gartner says IBM pushed Sun out of the Unix limelight with revenues up 14.3% to $1.26 billion while Sun dropped 1.5% to $1.17 billion. IDC gives IBM 29.6% of Unix revenues. Gartner has RISC-Itanium Unix server shipments falling 15.5% in the quarter and down 1.5% in revenue.

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Source: www.sys-con.com