HP Lands No. 1 Position in Worldwide Server Shipments for 11th Consecutive Quarter

HP Lands No. 1 Position in Worldwide Server Shipments for 11th Consecutive Quarter

HP closed out 2004 as the leader in worldwide server shipments for the 11th consecutive quarter, according to fourth quarter 2004 figures released today by IDC.(1)

HP’s leadership was fueled by a strong quarter for HP ProLiant systems in the x86 market, a sector the company has led for the last 11 quarters. HP increased its shipments by 19.1 percent and its revenue by 13.8 percent year over year.

In addition to these gains, achieved at the expense of competitors, HP grew share in unit shipments and was the No. 1 vendor in x86-64 platforms for 2004, a segment in which it saw sequential shipment growth of 176.2 percent and 195.9 percent in quarter-over-quarter revenue.

Furthermore, for Intel® Itanium® 2-based HP Integrity servers, the company experienced calendar year-over-year gains of 61.6 percent in units shipped and 245.8 percent in revenue.

“The numbers show that HP is pulling ahead of competitors in high-growth markets,” said Paul Miller, vice president, Marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “We ended 2004 capturing nearly a third of the revenue in the high-volume x86 space. Competitors who remain unable to add any differentiated value to their servers struggled, reinforcing that HP’s strategy of innovating on standards-based, high-volume architectures is bearing fruit.”

Additionally, HP is again the leader across all three major operating systems combined (Windows®, Linux and UNIX®), with sequential growth in shipments of 15.4 percent and revenue of 19.9 percent.(1) Offering customers a choice of operating systems and platforms that are based on industry standards is critical to HP’s server strategy for enterprises of all sizes.

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