x86 Continues to Gain in the Western European Server Market - 3Q04

This study highlights the major findings from IDC's European Quarterly Server Tracker for the third quarter of 2004, specifically detailing vendor, operating system, CPU, and country trends in the combined Western European server and x86 market. Factory revenue in the Western European server and x86 market grew at 4.4% year over year in the third quarter of 2004, marking the fifth consecutive quarter of positive overall growth. According to Nathaniel Martinez, program manager with IDC's European Server Group, "For the first time, x86 servers generated more revenue that sales from RISC-based systems in 3QCY04. Overall, growth on the European server market was mainly fuelled by demand in the volume server space. Recent technology developments such as server blades, x86-64, virtualization and dual-core processors, while reshaping the server landscape should accentuate this positive trend in the near term."