IBM ESERVER EXTENDS U.S. MARKET LEAD IN 2001.IBM's revenue share of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. server market segment in 2001 skyrocketed nearly eight points year over year to 29.3 percent, extending the company's position as the country's leading server vendor by revenue, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the just-released 2001 U.S. server database from independent analyst Gartner Dataquest. Other major server vendors lost revenue market share for the year, according to Gartner Dataquest. In the hotly-contested market for Intel servers, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) gained more revenue share in the U.S. than any other major vendor -- rising 1.63 points to 12.4 percent from 2000 to 2001. The IBM gains reflect the company's vigorous push into the market for Intel-processor servers with a bold lineup of products that leverage mainframe-inspired technologies to enhance performance and reliability. IBM also gained more U.S. market revenue share in the UNIX server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. segment than any other major vendor, posting a year-over-year increase of 3.1 points in 2001. IBM redefined UNIX servers in 2001, with the introduction of the game-changing IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. p690 "Regatta" system. |
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