Server demand declines in first quarter
Both revenue and unit shipments were down by about 24% in the first quarter.
By Jim Carbone -- Purchasing, 6/2/2009 3:12:00 PM
Worldwide server revenue declined 24% to $10.1 billion in the first quarter of 2009 compared to $13.2 billion in the same period in 2008, according to researcher Gartner Inc. Unit shipments declined 24.2% to 1.7 million compared to 2.2 million in the first quarter of 2008.
“The significant decline that occurred in the fourth quarter of last year extended into the beginning of this year,” says Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “While this was not unexpected, the severity of the decline was greater than predicted on a worldwide level.”
The ongoing weakness of the global economy affected all server segments. Shipments x86-based servers fell 23.9% in units and 27.1% in revenues. UNIX servers also were impacted in quarterly results with drops of 31.3% in units and 20.4% in vendor revenues, Hewitt says.
The server market was negatively impacted in all geographic regions.
Also see: High-end server shipments rise
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