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Server sales drop 25 percent worldwide
Worldwide server sales suffered a 25 percent drop in the first quarter, hitting their lowest level in at least 12 years, according to a new report from market tracker IDC.
The report, released Thursday, recorded first-quarter factory server sales at $9.9 billion, a drop of exactly 24.5 percent over the same period a year ago--and the lowest level since IDC began covering the market a dozen years ago.
The number of servers shipped fell 26.5 percent from the year-ago quarter, the smallest quarterly figure in the last five years.
IDC breaks the server market into three segments--volume … Read more
