"Dell Computer Corp. (DELL) finished a strong fifth with a 21 percent rise to $884 million."
US, Japanese server sales sapped market in Q1-IDC
6/12/2001 5:41:00 PM
06-12 0393 US, Japanese server sales sapped market in Q1-IDC
LOS ANGELES, June 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. and Japanese markets for network server computers dragged down global sales in the first quarter despite rises in Europe and the rest of Asia, research from International Data Corp. showed on Tuesday
Total global sales of computers that run company networks and the Internet dropped 4 percent to $13.3 billion, with the U.S. market off 16 percent from a year ago to $4.4 billion and Japan down 12 percent to $2.1 billion, according to a report from the industry benchmarker obtained by Reuters.
The rest of Asia Pacific gained 12 percent to $1.2 billion and Western Europe rose 16 percent to $3.8 billion in the first quarter of 2001, IDC said.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) extended its lead among vendors, rising 13 percent to $3.3 billion in the quarter.
Research firm Gartner Inc. in a report on the first quarter published last month had also said global sales sank and that IBM outperformed on a relative basis, although it had said sales at Big Blue were basically flat.
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HWP) just kept its second-place position as sales fell 5 percent to $2.1 billion. Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW) lost 3 percent but stayed No. 3 ahead of Compaq Computer Corp. (CPQ) as Sun sold $2.05 billion and Compaq $1.96 billion, IDC said. Dell Computer Corp. (DELL) finished a strong fifth with a 21 percent rise to $884 million.
Dell and Compaq are heavy sellers of lower-end servers, often based on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Windows operating systems and the collaboratively developed Linux, which are both gaining acceptance for tasks critical to business.
Sun has said that IBM benefited from a new product cycle in the first quarter and that Sun, introducing its own new servers, would do better for the year. Hewlett-Packard is also just starting to see volume sales of its new high-end Unix server.
In the market where IBM, Sun and Hewlett-Packard compete most tightly, for boxes running the dominant, high-end Unix operating system, Sun kept its lead with a 32 percent share, although sales dropped 3 percent to $2.0 billion.
Hewlett-Packard was second, with sales falling 5 percent to $1.6 billion, and IBM gained 28 percent to $1.4 billion.
REUTERS
Rtr 17:41 06-12-01 Copyright 2001, Reuters News Service
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