Downright Painful: Server Sales Plummeted in Q2

“In another big shift, IDC found the market for non-x86 servers
fell 32.2 percent to $4.7 billion, marking the first time in six
quarters that x86 dollar volumes have beaten non-x86.

“Typically, non-x86 systems — Sun UltraSparc, IBM Power and
Intel Itanium — have much lower volume but sell for a lot more
because they are larger, mission-critical systems used in vital
datacenters.

“IDC said Microsoft Windows server revenue of $3.7 billion was
off 27.7 percent year-over-year, while Linux server revenue
declined 28.9 percent from last year to $1.3 billion. Windows
servers now represent 38.1 percent of industry server revenue while
Linux servers now account for 13.8 percent of all server
revenue.”

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