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Compiled from outside sources by Penny Wang, Research Center; Willie Teng, DigiTimes.com [Wednesday 27 February 2002]
IBM remained the top server company in 2001, with a 29% market share by sales revenue, according to market research firm Gartner Group. IBM’s 2001 revenue from servers fell slightly from US$13.9 billion in the previous year to US$13.6 billion, while the market shrunk by 15% to US$47 billion.
Sales of Unix-platform servers, accounting for 44% of the server market, fell 18.7% from 2000’s US$25.3 billion to US$20.6 billion in 2002. IBM’s share of the Unix server market rose to 20.3% with US$4.2 billion in sales but remained behind Sun Microsystems’s revenue of US$7.3 billion and 35.2% market share and Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) US$4.6 billion revenue and 20.5% market share.
Sales of Intel-platform servers dropped 16.2% from 2000’s US$20.5 billion to US$17.2 billion. Compaq Computer was the top company in the sector with revenue of US$4.5 billion and a 26.3% market share. Dell came in second with US$3.1 billion in revenue and a 17.6% market share.
Market share of the world’s top five server companies (%)
2001 2000 1999
IBM 29 25.5 28.3
Sun Microsystems 15.4 18.1 14
Compaq 13.9 16 14
HP 12.8 13.3 14.4
Dell 6.4 6.4 4.1
Source: Gartner, compiled by DigiTimes, February 2002. |
