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To: PCSS who wrote (648)	5/28/2002 9:50:32 PM
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Worldwide computer server market shrank in Q1 SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (Reuters) - The global market for powerful server computers shrank 15 percent in the first quarter, and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) showed the strongest share gain, research from Gartner Inc showed on Tuesday. Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) showed a 0.5 percentage point share gain in the $10.5 billion market from a year earlier, matching exactly acquisition Compaq Computer Corp's share loss, the data obtained by Reuters showed. HP and Compaq, which merged this month, together accounted for 25.7 percent of the market, compared to IBM's 27.8 percent and Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW) , 0.6 percentage point rise to 17.4 percent of the market. No. 2 personal computer maker Dell Computer Corp. (DELL) , which is trying to muscle its way into the server market relying on machines running Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Windows and Linux operating systems, was unchanged at 6.9 percent of the market. The market for the most popular high-end operating system, Unix, contracted 15.8 percent to $4.5 billion and leader Sun Micro solidified its position, its share rising 1.7 percentage points from a year earlier to 41.0 percent of the market, more than twice IBM's 18.5 percent. Again, HP's gain offset Compaq's loss, and the two together had 28 percent of the market. Sales of servers running Linux, the upstart operating system developed by engineers worldwide, jumped 54.7 percent from a year earlier to just under $400 million, with IBM leading the pack. The market for servers running on Intel Corp. (INTC) microchips, traditionally lower-end machines running the Windows operating system but now also popular for Linux, fell 14.3 percent to $3.9 billion, With Compaq leading at 25.2 percent of the market