"There are two things we've noticed about the quarterly server shipment stats from Gartner and IDC: Their releases seems to always coincide with a holiday weekend, and no matter what the actual numbers say, every major vendor finds a way to spin them to make itself No. 1 in at least one area.
"Second quarter 2005 was no exception. Although it wasn't quite the holiday weekend, we'll let that slide. While there was little to dispute about the clear-cut winner — both IDC and Gartner named IBM, which captured roughly one-third of the market — movement in the Unix space was hotly contested and filled with contradictions..."
