Shipment of Linux, Windows servers on the rise

According to IDC, in its Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report, year-over-year server shipments in Q2 2010 increased to 23.8 percent--the most rapid growth in more than five years. According to the research analysis company, the global server market is cornered by HP (NYSE: HPQ), with 32.5 percent factory output, while IBM (NYSE: IBM) comes in at second place with 29.8 percent. The next three server manufacturers reported were Dell, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Fujitsu, with 15.6 percent, 8.6 percent and 3.4 percent of the factory revenue market share respectively.

Matt Eastwood, group vice president, Enterprise Platforms at IDC noted: "The server market is at a crossroads. This is the fourth consecutive quarter of improving sever market demand and the fastest quarterly server revenue growth IDC has reported in more than five years."

Propelling demand for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows servers would be a 28.2 percent increase in unit shipments of x86 servers, which hit $7 billion worldwide on unit shipments of 1.8 million servers. Windows server sales were $5 billion, while Linux server sales were $1.8 billion. Both Windows and Linux servers saw an increase in revenues compared to the same time last year, though it apparently comes at the expense of Unix, which saw a 7.2 percent dip to $2.9 billion in revenues.

For more on this story:
- check out this article at InformationWeek
- check out this article at Redmond Channel Partner

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