CNET News: Dell Nears Sun in IBM-led Server Race

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Stephen Shankland
May 26, 2004

“Third-ranked Sun Microsystems narrowly clung to its lead over
Dell in the global server market in the first quarter of the year,
while top-ranked IBM extended its lead over Hewlett-Packard, new
statistics show.

“One area that blossomed in particular was sales of Linux
servers, which grew 57.3 percent to $1.02 billion, McLaughlin said.
By comparison, sales of servers running Windows increased 19.5
percent to $4.13 billion in the quarter…”


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