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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