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5.5 million installed servers for vendors to improve sales.


A new IDC study has highlighted the fact that examining the server installed base and asset value is an increasingly important focus for effectively planning future sales into the mature Western European European

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 server market While there is still some scope for placing new types of machines into new locations, the vast majority of savers Savers, Inc. headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is a privately held for-profit thrift store chain offering the best in secondhand shopping. An international company, Savers has more than 200 locations throughout the United States, Canada and Australia, and receives its merchandise  purchased in the Western European region are replacing existing systems.

The server replacement rate will rise slowly from 2005 to 2008, and will shift to a dramatic rise (2.5 million) by 2009.

The Western European server market contains 5.5 million units worth E17 billion, with HP and IBM products The following is a list of products from the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation and its predecessor corporations, beginning in the 1890s, and spanning punched card machinery, time clocks, and typewriters, via mainframe computers and minicomputers, to microprocessors, PCs,  representing 59% of the installed base.

Replacement and upgrade issues are therefore key to tapping into this type of market. IDC's study, 'European Server Installed Base Market Shares and Forecasts 2004-2009', examInes the reasons why most vendors are facing difficulties accessing this important franchising opportunity.

Vendors should focus on new markets, such as Linux Linux

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 or Itanium The CPU family from Intel that is based on its next-generation, 64-bit IA-64 architecture. The operating systems that are available for Itanium computers are Windows Server 2003, HP-UX and Linux. , to compete successfully,' Each years spending on servers in our region is a significant proportion of the asset value of all servers installed (71%).

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Date:Feb 1, 2006
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