Analysts have published the results of the IDC market research servers of the second quarter, which show that during this period the company managed to overtake IBM in volume shipments of its largest competitor, company Hewlett-Packard. The volume of the market occupied by IBM, totaled 33, 2%, which corresponds to 31, 1% growth compared with same period last year, while market share declined by 28 HP, 3% and was equal to 28, 3%. Following the leaders with a small isolation followed by Dell and Sun Microsystems, which belongs to 12, 11 and 5%, 2% of the market, respectively.
The total supply in the market of servers in the second quarter increased by 11%, but nonetheless, experts IDC projected decline in demand for servers in the second half of 2008, explaining it is likely revision of IT-down budgets in many corporate customers. In the second quarter, mainly primary contribution to the overall increase in shipments made modular servers, Unix-systems and models of the family of IBM System z.
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