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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (43742)	6/13/2001 3:01:17 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 64865

siliconinvestor.com IBM Gains Four Points Of Share In Server Market, Report Says IDC Report States IBM is Number One Server Company, Outselling Sun by 60 percent ARMONK, N.Y., Jun 13, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- International Data Corporation (IDC) reported today that IBM is the number one server vendor worldwide in terms of factory revenue for the first quarter of 2001, gaining four points of market share in the quarter and outselling rival Sun Microsystems by a 60 percent margin. According to IDC's Quarterly Server Tracker, IBM's worldwide leadership over Sun extended to server shipments, with IDC reporting that IBM shipped 140,943 servers in the quarter, 112 percent more than Sun's 66,609 shipments. "The latest figures from IDC affirm IBM's worldwide server leadership and clearly indicate that the IBM eServer lineup is appealing to more customers than ever before," said Mark Shearer, vice president of marketing, IBM eServer. "Customers worldwide are increasingly turning toward open, flexible IBM eServer systems to build out their e-business infrastructures." Also contributing to IBM's top ranking was the company's introduction in October, 2000 of IBM eServer, a new generation of servers featuring mainframe-class reliability and scalability, broad support of open standards for the development of new applications, and capacity on demand for managing the unprecedented demands of e-business. IBM's eServer line provides flexibility to help customers build and manage e-business infrastructures affordably and effectively. IBM is the number one server vendor in the world. For more information, visit ibm.com. The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the descriptive term "server" following it. The IBM e-business logo, zSeries, pSeries, xSeries and iSeries are trademarks of IBM Corporation. All others are trademarks of their respective companies. Source: IDC's Quarterly Server Tracker, Q101, June 2001 Revenue estimates were derived and reported by International Data Corporation. According to IDC, these estimates are based on factory revenues at actual currency, include external storage, and exclude OS/390 operating system revenue. These estimates may not correspond to IBM's reports, and IBM makes no representation as to the accuracy of such estimates.

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (43742)	6/13/2001 3:20:22 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Get some reality woman! theregister.co.uk Server sales slump in Q1 By Robert Blincoe Posted: 13/06/2001 at 15:07 GMT Sales of servers dropped in Q1 with worldwide revenues slipping four per cent to $13.3 billion. IBM is still top dog in the sector and didn't suffer from the general market downturn. Its sales grew 13 per cent in the period to $3.3 billion. The market figures come from IDC, which is releasing its research into the server sector later today. It's given CNet a sneak preview, which is where we've got the stats from. HP, Sun, and Compaq, ranked two, three, and four respectively in the server top five, all saw sales drop in the period. However Dell, at number five, saw it server sales leap 21 per cent to $884 million. HP's sales slipped five per cent to $2.12 billion; Sun's dropped three per cent to $2.05 billion, and Compaq's stumbled two per cent $1.96 billion. The Windows server market grew seven per cent in Q1 to $3.2 billion, and the Unix market slipped two per cent to $6.5 billion. Sun's got 32 per cent of the Unix market with sales of $2 billion; HP's got 25 per cent with sales of $1.6 billion and IBM's in third place with a 21 per cent share and sales of $1.4 billion. In the US server sales plummeted 16 per cent to $4.4 billion and the Japanese market dropped 12 per cent to $2.1 billion. The areas of growth were Western Europe and the rest of the Asia-Pacific region which enjoyed sales of $3.8 billion (up 16 per cent) and $1.2 billion (up 12 per cent) respectively. ®