Oracle regains the #1 UNIX Shipments Marketshare
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Oracle has regained the #1 UNIX Server Shipments spot! According to IDC, Oracle’s share was 33.6%, up from 32.7% in the year ago period, and 32.2% in C4Q13:
IDC: WW Unix Unit Shipments, Share, Growth |
||||||||
|
2013Q1 |
Share |
2013Q4 |
Share |
2014Q1 |
Share |
Sequential Growth |
Y/Y Growth |
Oracle |
10,141 |
32.7% |
10,294 |
32.2% |
8,355 |
33.6% |
-18.8% |
-17.6% |
IBM |
10,203 |
32.9% |
11,533 |
36.0% |
6,919 |
27.8% |
-40.0% |
-32.2% |
HP |
7,046 |
22.7% |
6,786 |
21.2% |
6,549 |
26.4% |
-3.5% |
-7.1% |
Fujitsu |
1,174 |
3.8% |
1,141 |
3.6% |
1,069 |
4.3% |
-6.3% |
-8.9% |
Dell |
565 |
1.8% |
499 |
1.6% |
519 |
2.1% |
4.0% |
-8.2% |
NEC |
69 |
0.2% |
81 |
0.3% |
63 |
0.3% |
-22.5% |
-9.4% |
Others |
1,804 |
5.8% |
1,684 |
5.3% |
1,380 |
5.6% |
-18.1% |
-23.5% |
Total Market |
31,002 |
100.0% |
32,018 |
100.0% |
24,854 |
100.0% |
-22.4% |
-19.8% |
While the UNIX server space is currently undergoing some contraction (on a pure numbers basis), this can be traced in part to an overall consolidation trend, due to the greatly-increased price-performance of our systems. Consider this: one SPARC T5-4 system has 1/16th the number of sockets and 1/192nd the number of cores of the previous high-end M9000-64 system -- all at 5X the price-performance.
SPARC. Solaris. Nuff' said.
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