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Enjoy the Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker September 2009 — IDC released a quarterly update to their Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, citing market share figures for the 2nd calendar quarter of 2009 (2Q09).

Consider these telling facts:

[Source: All of the following market share figures are for the 2nd quarter (unless otherwise noted) and represent worldwide results as reported by the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, September 2009]

Fact 1: For the 29th consecutive quarter, more than 7 years, HP is the #1 vendor in worldwide server shipments. HP shipped more than 1 out of every 3 servers worldwide and captured 34.8 percent total unit shipment share.

HP shipped over 117,000 more servers than #2 Dell.
HP shipped 2.3 times as many servers as #3 IBM and 8.4 times as many as #4 Sun.

HP gained most total server unit market share year over year of the top five vendors (+1.7 percentage points).

Fact 2: HP has a commanding lead in the blade server market, with a 52.9% revenue share, and a 49.7% unit share.

HP had more than twice as much x86 blade server revenue as #2, IBM.

HP Integrity blades grew revenue 65.5% and claimed the #1 in revenue share in the RISC+EPIC blade segment gaining 7.7 points year over year.

Fact 3: For the 52nd consecutive quarter, 13 years, HP ProLiant is the x86 server market share leader in both factory revenue and units1, shipping more than 1 out of every 3 servers in this market with a 35.6% unit share.

HP’s x86 revenue share was 13.2 points higher than its nearest competitor; Dell. HP’s x86 revenue share was 19.5 percentage points higher than IBM.

Fact 4: HP is the number 1 supplier of Itanium (EPIC) based systems based on worldwide unit volume and worldwide factory revenue.

HP’s Integrity factory revenue was more than Sun’s SPARC revenue.

Fact 5: HP is #1 in Windows® revenue and units worldwide.

HP has a commanding 37.9% revenue share of the Windows market and leads the nearest competitor, Dell, by 12.0 percentage points.

Fact 6: HP is #1 in Linux® revenue, 37.7%, and units, 35.8%.

In terms of Linux revenue share HP leads #2, IBM, by 15.2 points and #3, Dell, by 20.4 points.
HP shipped 10.7 times the number of Linux servers than Sun shipped in the same period.

Fact 7: For the 3 major operating environments UNIX, Windows and Linux combined (representing 99.2% of all servers shipped worldwide), HP is number 1 worldwide in server unit shipment and revenue market share.

HP holds a 34.9% unit market share worldwide, which is 2.3 times more than IBM’s unit market share and 8.3 times the unit share of Sun.

HP holds a 32.9% revenue market share worldwide which is 2.2 times the revenue share of Dell and 2.7 times the revenue share of Sun.

To learn more about HP servers see: http://www.hp.com/go/servers

1 Includes Compaq ProLiant from Q196 through Q202 and HP ProLiant from Q302 through Q306. Source the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for Q109, May 2009.
Intel, Itanium and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Linux is a U.S. registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. AMD Opteron is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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