The worldwide server market grew slightly in the third quarter of
this year, up just 3.1% on the same period last year, when sales
were hit hard by the 11 September attacks.
Dell increased its share of the server market, according to
preliminary figures released by research company Gartner
Dataquest.
The vendor shipped 212,880units, some 19.2% of the servers shipped
worldwide during the period. This was up from 16.8% in the third
quarter of last year.
Meanwhile, sales leader Hewlett-Packard, which shipped 332,364
units, saw its market share slip to 30.0% in the quarter. A year
earlier, HP and Compaq together claimed 32.5% of sales.
IBM, Sun Microsystems and NEC completed the list of the top five
vendors worldwide.
In the US, Apple entered the top ranks of server manufacturers with
unit shipments growing 273.8% on the back of the May launch of its
Xserve rack-mounted server.
Dell took the lead from HP in the US, jumping to 26.3% of shipments
from 23.3% a year earlier, while HP's share fell to 25.9% from
29.2%. Dell's unit shipments soared 26.7% between the two quarters,
while HP's fell 0.5%, Dataquest said. Overall, the US server market
grew 12.2%. IBM, Sun and Apple filled out the top five.
Here are Dataquest's worldwide figures for the third quarter of
2002, compared with the same period last year, based on preliminary
figures:
3Q 2002 shipments/share of market
HP/Compaq - 332,364
(30%); Dell - 212,880 (19.2%); IBM - 153,781 (13.9%); Sun - 68,193
(6.2%); NEC- 24,291 (2.2%); Others - 314,823 (28.5%).
Total -
1,106,332
3Q 2001 shipments/share of market
HP/Compaq - 349,036
(32.5%); Dell - 180,201 (16.8%); IBM - 155,803 (14.5%); Sun -
58,036 (5.4%); NEC - 24,549 (2.4%); Others - 304,111 (28.3%).
Total - 1,072,736
Year-on-year growth
HP/Compaq: -4.8%
Dell: 18.1%
IBM: -1.3%
Sun: 17.5%
NEC: -4.9%
Others: 3.5%
Total: 3.1%