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August 25, 2008 (IDG News Service) Dell Inc. posted the biggest gains in worldwide server revenue in the second quarter, helping it to nudge Sun Microsystems Inc. out of third place, Gartner Inc. said last week.

IBM retained the top spot but had slower revenue growth than Dell, while Hewlett-Packard Co. stayed in second place with hardly any growth at all, according to Gartner’s estimates.

Dell’s server revenue climbed by 15% over the second quarter of last year, compared with 11.5% growth for IBM and 3% growth for HP, Gartner said. Sun’s revenue declined almost 7% while Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens stayed flat.

Interesting news regarding server sales. The key thing from an end user perspective is that innovation of the platform, the support continues as does healthy competition between the vendors. It will be interesting to see how the regions break down, whether there regional differences on a vendor basis as well as revenue/server sales basis – are certain regions growing like Asia? Do they have different requirements to the US or Europe?

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