He repeatedly referred to Linux as one choice among many operating systems in the server space.
In the server market at least, Linux is providing Microsoft with some much-needed competition.
Advanced Micro Devices mainly competes with Intel in the server processor market.
The key offerings are in the server management services and system oriented architecture.
As a result, we expect that AMD should be able to gain some share in the server processor market going forward.
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Microsoft, in particular, did well, with rising revenue and profit, mostly the result of strength in the Server and Tools and Business divisions.
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In this account, HP responds to the evolving requirements of a fairly new (dating from around 2007) sector in the server business, the mega-datacenter.
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The ballyhooed Linux operating system, which is free, has made inroads in the server market, but not on the desktop, for want of applications.
Historically, AMD enjoyed a 15% share in the server processor market but has witnessed a continuous slide ever since, mainly on account of execution issues.
It has 95% market share in the productivity software market, 75% share in the operating system market and approximately 75% share in the server software market.
Post the acquisition of SeaMicro, we believe the company is better positioned with strong IP and an enhanced product offering to leverage growth in the server market.
They say the tech industry is recovering and that IT spending is on the rise, but it's not all good news for the guys in the server room.
We discuss below some of the reasons why AMD lost market share in the server processor market in the past and why the future may look good for them.
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Competition from rival open source operating system, Linux, is stalling Microsoft's growth in the server market, but desktop dominance remains intact: Windows installed in 94% of PCs being sold.
Dell remained a distant third in the server market market, despite a sales surge that pushed its share of worldwide server sales to 14.8% from 13.1% during the year-ago period.
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The other big driver: growth in the server market.
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There are servers synchronized with the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges, but many banks are keen on keeping the crown jewels in the server closet not the server farm.
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Huberty sees a divergence in the server market, with a 1% decline this year in server shipments into company-owned data centers, while managed hosting and cloud server shipments grow int he double digits.
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This would be a move away from its usual domain but one which, particularly in the server market, could be profitable and see it encroaching on territory traditionally dominated by IBM and Sun Microsystems.
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In the server market, the company is already selling memory interface devices, PCI express switches and timing components, and plans to add to the mix flash memory controllers, temperature sensors, power modules and other chips.
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In its bid to keep Big Blue's lead in the server market, IBM has launched the fastest-ever microprocessor and computer server, with the double whammy of being energy efficient, and thus relatively cheap to run.
The team patching the security hole in the server is different from the one working on the October intrusion, which was achieved using an attack program hidden in e-mail, said Rick Miller, another Microsoft spokesman.
Intel's success in the server market has been the result of a long history of technical progress and reliability, said Phil Brace , Intel's general manager for server platforms, in an interview that did not address the lawsuit.
Bill Zeitler, the senior vice president of IBM's systems and technology group, said IBM would garner 1 point of market share in the server market each year between now and 2010 in, with server growth in the mid single digits.
Sun is also working to improve SSD support with its next-gen ZFS file system, which in addition to powering its Solaris OS should be making an appearance in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, at least in the server version.
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But larger problems loom for Intel, as tablets put pressure and begin to take market share from notebooks, aggressive pricing from competitors put pressure on margins, and AMD ramps up its attempts to win market share in the server universe.
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However, with the closure of the acquisition of SeaMicro during the end of the first quarter and a new line-up of its Bulldozer based chips in the second quarter, we believe that the company is in a good position to regain its lost share in the server processor market.
And so in the case of the set-top box you typically would store the video back on the server, either the Media Center server in the home, or the your video provider server back at the head-end.
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