News - IBM poised to overtake HP for number one in server revenues

[HEXUS]

Big Blue is selling fewer servers but making more money.

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[crossy]

Big Blue is selling fewer servers but making more money.

According to those figures they aren't the only ones. Oracle seems to have had a dramatic fall in the number of servers they ship, but a correspondingly large increase in revenue. Either I'm reading the data wrong, or else Oracle are really over-pricing their hardware.

Although, I'll cheerfully admit to be confused by that top table - e.g. can't see how HP could have falling market share but still apparently have quarter-vs-quarter growth. Likewise for Dell.

Still, at the end of the day, I suppose it's not how many servers you ship, but how much money you make from each sale, either directly or indirectly. And on that metric all vendors (apart from Fujitsu) are doing okay.

[aidanjt]

...Oracle are really over-pricing their hardware.

Oracle? Overcharging for their wares? But that's so unlike them! ;P

[crossy]

Oracle? Overcharging for their wares? But that's so unlike them! ;P

Yes, crazy isn't it - next thing you know folks'll be accusing them of screwing over Solaris customers and managing to alienate just about the entire open-source community ...

oops!

[FatalSaviour]

Although, I'll cheerfully admit to be confused by that top table - e.g. can't see how HP could have falling market share but still apparently have quarter-vs-quarter growth. Likewise for Dell.
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If another rival company has stronger quarter-vs-quarter growth relative to them, then their market share will decline?

[Scott B]

Although, I'll cheerfully admit to be confused by that top table - e.g. can't see how HP could have falling market share but still apparently have quarter-vs-quarter growth. Likewise for Dell.

The whole market grew by 17.3 percent, so HP's growth was below the average, hence the loss of market share.

[crossy]

(Although, I'll cheerfully admit to be confused by that top table - e.g. can't see how HP could have falling market share but still apparently have quarter-vs-quarter growth. Likewise for Dell.) The whole market grew by 17.3 percent, so HP's growth was below the average, hence the loss of market share.

Ahh - now that makes sense.

Which could also explain the gloomy internal mails despite server revenues being up. (Not that this bothers me a heck of a lot - servers aren't my department)