Server racket to slow in 2009?
Upgrade Cycle v Meltdown
With some 2 million-plus physical boxes still being shipped every quarter on a global basis, the server racket is still a pretty good one. In the first three quarters of 2008, vendors peddled some $40bn in gear, and if you use IDC data as a gauge, they’ve collectively managed to boost revenues by 3.5 per cent for the year so far. For all intents and purposes, the fourth quarter of 2008 is done in terms of server sales, but we won’t know how well or how poorly vendors performed in Q4 for a few months yet. It takes time to dice and slice the numbers.…
