IBM gains four points of share in server marketArmonk 13 June 2001 International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that IBM is the number one server vendor worldwide in terms of factory revenue for the first quarter of 2001, gaining four points of market share in the quarter and outselling rival Sun Microsystems by a 60 percent margin.
According to IDC's Quarterly Server Tracker, IBM's worldwide leadership over Sun extended to server shipments, with IDC reporting that IBM shipped 140,943 servers in the quarter, 112 percent more than Sun's 66,609 shipments. "The latest figures from IDC affirm IBM's worldwide server leadership and clearly indicate that the IBM eServer lineup is appealing to more customers than ever before,'' said Mark Shearer, vice president of marketing, IBM eServer. "Customers worldwide are increasingly turning toward open, flexible IBM eServer systems to build out their e-business infrastructures." Also contributing to IBM's top ranking was the company's introduction in October, 2000 of IBM eServer, a new generation of servers featuring mainframe-class reliability and scalability, broad support of open standards for the development of new applications, and capacity on demand for managing the unprecedented demands of e-business. IBM's eServer line provides flexibility to help customers build and manage e-business infrastructures affordably and effectively.
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