The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report (May 23, 2007) showed Sun having its year-to-year total server revenue market share grow for the fifth straight quarter in Q107.

"The server market continues to experience solid growth as businesses of all types look to enhanced IT capabilities in order to help drive additional business efficiency, improved customer satisfaction and accelerated revenue growth," said Matt Eastwood, program VP of Enterprise Platforms at IDC, in a statement reported by InformationWeek.com. "It is becoming increasingly clear that the typical enterprise computing infrastructure will require additional investment in order to deliver on these objectives."

With the recent launch of its new SPARCR Enterprise servers, co-developed with Fujitsu, which became available in Q207, Sun expects customer interest in its servers to continue to grow, the Sun press release stated.

"We did well in a traditionally soft quarter for the company," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Sun Systems Group. "Our high-end UNIXR server sales were particularly strong as customers turned to Solaris to help with virtualization and consolidation. And with the SPARC Enterprise servers now in the market, new Intel- and AMD-based products coming soon, and Niagara2 on the horizon we're continuing to strengthen our product line."

"The IDC report, which looked at servers in terms of revenue, found HP and IBM tied for first place in the first quarter of 2007," eWeek.com reported. "After HP and IBM, Sun and Dell were each tied for third place on IDC's list with almost 11 percent market share each. Sun's revenue grew 6.3 percent, while Dell's grew only 1.7 percent." [...read more...]

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