Hewlett Packard Co [HPQ], which is vying with IBM Corp [IBM] for the top spot in the server market every quarter, took the lead in shipments, with 29.7% of the market.
In the U.S. market, Hewlett Packard (HP) grew shipments faster than the market at large, with a year-to-year shipment growth rate of 28.3% and a 9.9% sequential growth rate from the second quarter, yielding it 26.6% of the US market.
Worldwide, the 408,290 servers that HP sold in Q3 represented an 8.1% sequential growth rate from Q2, and a growth rate that more or less matched the market at large with 21.2% growth. This suggests that HP is doing worse than other vendors when selling outside of the US market.
IBM, the number three vendor in terms of shipments with just over 220,083 machines shipped, could end up being the top vendor when ranked by revenue. (Either HP or IBM will be ranked first or second).
In Q3, Dell’s [DELL] worldwide shipments were up 28% to 276,350 units, while IBM’s shipments were up an incredible 36.5%. Sun Microsystems Inc [SUNW], the number four vendor when ranked by shipments in the quarter, saw a modest 2.9% shrink to 59,692 units.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
