3/07/00 - Asia Pacific Server Market Scales New Peaks 03/06/00
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 2000 MAR 6 (Newsbytes) -- By John Stackhouse, Computer Daily News. The server
market in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan) produced record results in 1999, market watcher IDC
Australia reports.
Server revenues increased 36 percent to US$4.67 billion, beating the previous record of $3.9 billion in
1997.
IDC says the market was fueled by sustained economic recovery, increased spending on Internet
applications and Y2K spending.
PC servers and entry servers provided the greatest business accelerators with growth rates of 68 percent
and 34 percent, respectively. High-end servers (more than $1 million) grew marginally at 3 percent and
were held back by theY2K slowdown.
However, Unix high-end servers generated substantial sales in 1999, deploying into Internet and business
intelligence environments.
Avneesh Saxena, Asia Pacific manager of server research, says the top five vendors increased their
combined revenue share to 83 percent, up from 80 percent in 1998 and 76 percent in 1997.
Strong RS/6000 and PC server growth enabled international Business Machines [NYSE:IBM] to maintain its
market lead, followed by H-P [NYSE:HWP], Compaq [NYSE:CPQ], Sun Microsystems [NASDAQ:SUNW] and
Dell [NASDAQ:DELL] - the latter making its debut in the top five.
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