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Big Blue is the top server vendor
Gartner claims
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 10:09
IBM HAS HUNG ON to its lead as the top peddler of servers, according to the pinstriped bean counters at Gartner.
The Boston market research outfit said IBM remained the top server vendor in 1Q09, holding 30.7 per cent market share by revenue. Other vendors ship more servers but IBM's are more expensive.
IBM has been in the top slot for about a year and seems to be taking ground in what is left of the Unix market. It managed a two percent growth rate. µ
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