‘Asia-Pacific server market up 4% in Q2’

SINGAPORE: The Asia-Pacific computer server market, excluding Japan, grew by

four per cent quarter-on-quarter and seven percent year-on-year during the

second quarter, research company Gartner Dataquest said.

Growth was not universal throughout the region but was largely fuelled by an

increase in shipments to China despite its slowed growth, Gartner said in a

statement.

South Korea, Taiwan, India and Singapore fared poorly in the second quarter

with negative quarter-on-quarter shipments. South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan

also recorded negative year-on-year growth.

"A lot of corporations, particularly in some of the regional centers

such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia that were delaying decisions are

still not confident enough to make them now," Gartner's regional server

program manager Matthew Boon said in the statement.

Compaq was the region's top server vendor in the second quarter with 21 per

cent unit market share, overtaking IBM that slipped to second place with 18 per

cent. Hewlett-Packard came in third at 16 percent, followed by Dell at nine

percent, Legend at five percent and Sun Microsystems at five percent.

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