A year is a long period of time and you should look more at the last quarter or two, during which time all the surveys say Dell is gaining market share vs. all other Intel server suppliers. Also, Intel based are gaining vs. Unix based, probably faster now than ever before. More detail, those server numbers include Unix systems and mainframes. A year ago, Sun was still selling pretty well, and IBM introduced a mainframe refresh, which they do every couple of years. IBM also introduced new, powerful AIX servers to combat Sun, that got a strong customer following in the past year. Customers for those machines are big Fortune 100 companies that don't tend to put off their machine purchases if they budgeted for them. Now, Sun is not selling well at all it appears, and that new IBM mainframe sales bubble has settled down, so, again, the Intel based are gaining on both.
Funny thing is that when your AMD starts to gain vs. Intel, you leap all over that and you could care less about full year data. You're a very selective, pick out the worst for Intel data that you can find all over the net and publish it type of poster. And, you do this on two other message boards besides SI, on both AMD and Intel threads. That's six threads where you post the same Intel lawsuit, Itanium bug, Dell server sales, etc., etc. articles. I've often wondered why someone of your ilk appears to have such a tremendous hate for Intel. What'd they do to you? You really ought to try to get a life.
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