New worldwide servers sales estimates have been published by Gartner and by IDC.
According to Gartner IBM wins on revenues like it always does. HP wins on units sold. Dell's market share sunk further. Ditto Sun.
IDC's numbers, which are calculated slightly differently, say that HP and IBM statistically tied on revenues at 29.2% and 28.9% respectively, and that HP sold one out of every three servers in the world, up 16.6%, faster than anybody. IBM owes eight percent of share to mainframes.
Worldwide Revenue
Total worldwide sales were up 4.5% to $12.86 billion, Gartner says. IDC puts it at a seemingly rosier 4.9%, which is actually only $12.4 billion, the best first quarter since 2001, it said. IDC has total units up 4.6%, but says it still down significantly from 1Q06 growth. Gartner has total shipments up 6% to 2.1 million units.
