“Gartner Dataquest’s preliminary worldwide server shipment estimates for the third quarter of 2004 reveal that the market achieved its seventh consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year growth. Apple continued to re-establish itself in the server market, according to the analyst. After having above-average growth in the second quarter of 2004, Apple grew shipments 119 percent year over year,” IT-Enquirer reports.
“Shipments in the third quarter of 2004 totaled 1,653,330 units worldwide, a growth rate of 17.1 percent compared with the third quarter of 2003, and 3 percent growth from the second quarter of 2004,” IT-Enquirer reports. “HP still leads the worldwide server market, shipping 465,977 units in the third quarter of 2004. Among the top five vendors, Dell still has the fastest growth, gaining 25 percent year over year, with 346,905 units shipped in the third quarter. The top five positions have not changed since last quarter.”
“IBM still holds the third spot overall, with 270,408 units shipped. Sun Microsystems had modest growth in the third quarter, gaining just more than 1 percent and shipping 80,053 units. Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens increased its market share from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent in this quarter, after dropping a point over the last four quarters. Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens shipped 60,745 units, a growth rate of 12.3 percent from the third quarter of 2003,” IT-Enquirer reports. “Among the rest of the top 10, Apple Computer continued to re-establish itself in the server market. After having above-average growth in the second quarter of 2004, Apple grew shipments 119 percent year over year.”
Full article here.
I wonder how many units for Apple that equate to?
I was thinking the exact same thing. After all, Apple was in the title of this IT article.
Yeah, and what position are they in??? So we know Apple is in the top 10, but are they 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th or 10th?
Even the original article doesn’t mention it.
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the article is quite poor: Fujitsu/FSC ist mentioned twice as the 4th and 5th position. And the market share / sold units numbers of Apple are not even mentioned! A lot of numbers that don’t mean this much. pitty …
It is kind of odd that they leave out the numbers. But, it’s rather clear that Xserves are making an impact. Although, what a waste it is for those kinds of sales increases to occur for a company that is practically going out of business.
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Dell is the only one with significant server sales increases. Are they really going out of business? Good riddance.
Can’t wait for Xserve to start appearing on eBay
According to the Data Summary PDF at http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/oct/13results.html …
In Q4 ’04, Apple sold 156,000 Power Macs (G5 towers and Xserves combined) producing $340,000,000 in revenue. In Q3 ’04, it was 221,000 units bringing in $419,000,000.
We need more xServes!
Apple is totally dependant of IBM when it comes to G5/G6 processors. IBM does not want Apple to be the king of the world… Does this mean that Apple buys out Motorolas processor company… Freewilly?
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Yeah.. MDN’s take might have included the very number we are all clamouring for.. *cough..
anyway.. 119% growth kicks ass.. way to go Apple.. they’re brilliantly attaching their Mac OS to the Servers (having already developed the OS X Server, it doesn’t cost them a great deal to attach it to the Xserve.. so way to reuse existing tech) and offer these Xserves at a very very competitive price..!!
Yeah, without the numbers, the percentage is somewhat meaningless.
I love my Xserve
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I want one for my house next…
119% seems low to me given all those clusters. Anyone know if Gartner includes Apple’s direct sales or just those through resellers? Do they have access to the numbers?
I guess the reason there was not much detail in the article is that it’s from a report costing hundreds of dollars aimed at IT executives. Gartner has to earn its dollars.
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