According to second quarter 2006 figures released today by IDC,(1)
HP (NYSE:HPQ) (Nasdaq:HPQ) has maintained its 10-year lead in the
x86 server market(2) by earning 34.5 percent factory revenue share
for the period.
HP also retained its No. 1 position in total worldwide server unit
shipments, outshipping all other major vendors in the worldwide
server market for the 17th consecutive quarter. HP took the No. 2
spot for total server factory revenue with 27.8 percent of the
market.
In addition to its lead in x86 servers, HP continued to be No. 1 in
total worldwide factory revenue and units for the x86-64, AMD
Opteron(TM) and Intel Itanium(R)-based server markets. HP also led
in all three of the major operating systems combined -- Windows(R),
Linux and UNIX(R) -- which comprise more than 96 percent of all
servers shipped worldwide.
"Not only has HP led the world in industry-standard servers for the
last 10 years, but we've also had strong growth in important
emerging markets like blades, Integrity and Linux," said Mark
Hudson, vice president of marketing, Enterprise Storage and
Servers, HP. "This confirms that our ongoing investments will
enable us to continue to lead in delivering value to our
customers."
Highlights of the analyst firm's worldwide report include:
-- This quarter marks the 40th consecutive quarter of x86 server
market share leadership for the HP ProLiant server family in both
factory revenue and units(2);
-- HP maintained the No. 1 vendor ranking worldwide with 30.5
percent total server shipment share growing 12 percent
year-over-year, outgrowing the nearest two competitors;
-- HP maintains a No. 1 position in the high-end UNIX server
factory revenue worldwide, in a statistical tie. It also grew Linux
server units by 32.7 percent year-over-year, significantly faster
than the market in units and factory revenue, gaining 5 percentage
points of unit market share;
-- HP tied for the No. 1 position in blade server factory revenue
and grew faster than competitors with 46.3 percent year-over-year
growth while gaining market share. These results were achieved even
before HP's powerful new, c-Class blades started volume shipments
in the current calendar quarter;
-- HP Integrity servers, using the Intel Itanium 2 processor,
maintained their No. 1 position in both factory revenue and units,
growing 58.2 percent in factory revenue year-over-year;
-- In the rapidly growing x86-64 based server segment, HP was No. 1
in factory revenue and units shipped, with year-over-year unit
shipment growth of 49.1 percent. This includes both AMD Opteron(TM)
and Intel(R) x86-64 Xeon(TM)-based servers.
-- HP gained more than 12 percentage points market share in AMD
Opteron processor-based server factory revenue; the AMD Opteron
processor accounted for 20.2 percent of all worldwide x86 server
revenue in the period. HP remains the leading provider of AMD
Opteron processor-based servers and server blades, with a
commanding 46.1 percent of factory revenue share.
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imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31,
2006, HP revenue totaled $90.0 billion. More information about HP
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(1) IDC, Q206 Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, August 2006.
(2) Includes Compaq ProLiant from Q196 through Q202 and HP ProLiant
from Q302 through Q206.
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