from the same IDC study - the full report, the HP lead was for "mid-range" servers from 100,000 to 1 Million. Obviously there is a lot of strength in the under 100K market where Sun markets workstations which are also servers - i.e a 4 way E450 is marketed as both a high end workstation and Enterprise server. In the high end Sun is #1 with the E10000 which dominates HP's V class in every way, shape and form!
Sun Surges Ahead in Server Market, Commands First Place for Total UNIX Server Shipments
Sun Tops Three Server Market Categories and Posts 75 Percent Growth Rate for Shipments, According to International Data
Corporation
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 1998-- Sun Microsystems, Inc. has reached a major milestone, capturing UNIX(R) server market leadership by
outranking all competitors in UNIX server shipments for 1997, according to new data released by International Data Corporation (IDC). IDC reports Sun jumped from
number three to number one in the UNIX server market for total units shipped, in the process dethroning the tied leaders from the previous year, IBM and
Hewlett-Packard (H-P).
Further illustrating Sun's explosive growth in the server market, the company achieved a 75 percent year-over-year increase in total server shipments, according to
IDC. Sun's momentum in this market roundly outpaced total unit shipment growth by competitors IBM (27 percent), H-P (40 percent) and Compaq (45 percent) for
calendar year 1997 (CY97). |
