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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Worldwide server shipments jumped 12.7 percent in 2005 while revenues increased 4.5 percent to $51.68 billion as companies turned to lower-end — and less expensive — systems for their computing needs, the research firm Gartner Inc. reported.
The numbers, released Tuesday, show the continuation of a trend toward servers based on commodity, or "x86," microprocessors from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. They often run the freely distributed Linux operating system.
"The most dynamic market remains the x86 server segment," said Jeffrey Hewitt, a research director at Gartner. "These servers continue to be the choice in increasing numbers to meet the needs of more Web users accessing more file types from more access points than ever."
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