Gartner Dataquest Says Worldwide Server Revenue Totaled $54 Billion in 2000
Wednesday March 7 6:02am
Source: BusinessWire
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2001--The worldwide
server industry had revenue of $53.8 billion in 2000, an increase of
11 percent over 1999 revenue, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB). The industry benefited from a strong
fourth quarter as revenue reached $14.8 billion, an 18 percent
increase over the fourth quarter of 1999.
"We are not yet seeing the effects of an economic slowdown on the
server market, and competition is continuing to heat up as the market
matures," said Jeffrey Hewitt, principal analyst covering servers for
Gartner Dataquest's Computing Platform Worldwide group.
Despite flat growth in 2000, IBM retained its No. 1 position in
the server industry based on worldwide revenue (see Table 1). Dell
Computer and Sun Microsystems experienced the strongest growth among
the top-tier vendors with growth rates of 73 percent and 43 percent,
respectively.
Table 1
Worldwide Server Vendor Revenue Estimates for 2000
(Billions of Dollars)
2000 2000 1999 1999
Revenue Market Revenue Market Growth
Share Share (%)
(%) (%)
Company
IBM 13,736 25.5 13,728 28.3 0.1
Sun 9,711 18.1 6,793 14.0 43.0
Compaq 8,599 16.0 6,767 14.0 27.1
Hewlett-Packard 7,157 13.3 6,975 14.4 2.6
Dell 3,436 6.4 1,988 4.1 72.9
Others 11,122 20.7 12,198 25.2 -8.8
Total Market 53,761 100.0 48,448 100.0 11.0
Source: Gartner Dataquest (March 2001)
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In the U.S. server market, revenue reached $20.3 billion in 2000,
an increase of 15 percent over 1999 (see Table 2). Sun was the No. 1
vendor in the United States based on revenue with 24 percent market
share. IBM slipped to the No. 2 position with 23 percent market share,
followed by Compaq at No. 3 with 19 percent of U.S. server revenue.
*T
Table 1
U.S. Server Vendor Revenue Estimates for 2000
(Billions of Dollars)
2000 2000 1999 1999
Revenue Market Revenue Market Growth
Share Share (%)
(%) (%)
Company
Sun 4,785 23.5 3,304 18.7 44.8
IBM 4,692 23.1 5,205 29.4 -10.0
Compaq 3,894 19.2 2,829 16.0 37.6
Dell 2,351 11.6 1,306 7.4 80.0
Hewlett-Packard 2,196 10.8 2,497 14.1 -12.0
Others 2,413 11.9 2,563 14.5 -5.8
Total Market 20,330 100.0 17,704 100.0 14.8
Source: Gartner Dataquest (March 2001)
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"Demand for servers is still high, especially in e-business,
front-end Web, Web application and database servers, which will
continue in 2001," said Shahin Naftchi, senior analyst covering
servers and workstations for Gartner Dataquest's Computing Platform
Worldwide group.
Additional information on the server industry is available in the
Gartner Dataquest Alert, "Fourth Quarter and Year 2000 Final Estimates
for Servers." This Alert provides vendor market share results for both
worldwide and U.S. server industry on a revenue and shipment basis. To
purchase this Alert or subscribe to Gartner Dataquest's Servers
Quarterly Statistics program, please call 800-419-DATA, or
408-468-8009.
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Table 1 Worldwide Server Vendor Revenue Estimates for 2000 (Billions of Dollars)
Contact: Gartner Dataquest
Tom McCall, 408/468-8312
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