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[Maui]

Server Sales Surge for HP, Dell, IBM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20031031/bs_nf/22603

Winning the horse race was Hewlett Packard, which sold 408,000 units in the quarter, enjoying a 21 percent increase over last year.


HP (NYSE: HPQ - news) tends to have an advantage in the "units shipped" category, because it is the leading vendor of Intel-based servers. The market has been gravitating toward Intel-based servers at the expense of Unix (news - web sites) servers for some time, as the less-expensive machines grow ever more capable.


Intel-based servers are "starting to see greater and greater traction on the backside of Windows and Linux (news - web sites)," Forrester analyst Brad Day told NewsFactor. Additionally, "what you're seeing is much larger acceptance of Intel (Nasdaq: INTC - news) servers with 8 processors than ever before," he said.

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Maybe its a sign itanium is getting traction now.

Maui.