Friday, November 22, 2002
Server revenue for the Asia/Pacific region totaled $1.1 billion in Q3, a 1.4 percent increase from the same period last year, according to a Gartner Dataquest report released today.
China held its No. 1 position in server revenue in the Asia/Pacific region with about 30 percent market share, but it also showed a 10 percent decline in Q3 revenue compared to the 2001 period.
"Despite the server revenue decline in China, growth in mature markets such as Australia and Korea, coupled with significant emerging market increases, such as in Indonesia and India, resulted in positive revenue growth for the region," said Matthew Boon, principal analyst for Dataquest's Asia/Pacific computing platforms group, in a statement. "While conditions remain difficult, the fact that the region registered growth in the face of continuing global uncertainty indicates its relative resilience to adverse outside influences."
Now merged Hewlett-Packard Co. ended the quarter with a little more than 29 percent revenue market share, down from 30 percent market share in the year-ago period. But HP's share was up sequentially from Q2's 28 percent share.
"While it is still in the beginning stages of the merger, the new HP in Asia/Pacific must surely be heartened by this apparent slowing in decline when compared to earlier this year," Boon said. "Indications are that Asia/Pacific corporations are getting used to the new HP and are now feeling less nervous about an IT world without Compaq. There was always going to be some customer crossover, and this now appears to have sorted itself out."
IBM Corp. retained the No. 1 spot in overall revenue with 38 percent market share for the quarter, which represented a 2 percent decline from Q3 2001.
While IBM and HP declined year over year, Sun Microsystems Inc. managed to grow revenue 24 percent in Q3, pushing the market share to 14.6 percent.
"Sun Microsystems' growth rate is a significant achievement in today's market, " Boon said. "Sun achieved huge growth in markets such as Korea and India, while it also registered strong growth in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore."
By: DocMemory
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