Gartner & IDC Split on Server Fortunes: Worldwide server shipments were up 1.4% in Q2, according to Gartner, but paid less. Revenues were off 2.9%.
HP, which sells more servers than anybody else, was down 5% on both shipments and revenues.
Server ships in the US were up 8.4% bringing in revenues up 6.5%.
Gartner blames delayed buying ahead of new introduction and spending constraints. IBM, for instance, just brought out its new System zEC12 mainframes this week and new Unix boxes are coming. One can’t help but wonder if virtualization is also having an impact.
Gartner is expecting a return to single-digit growth.
IDC was more negative.
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