IBM Credits Customer Migration For 2009 Unix Share Gains

Vendor says competitive wins add $600 million in sales for the year.

February 16, 2010
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D.H. Kass

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IBM Corp. is crediting competitive displacements from former Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett Packard Co. customers with prompting Q4 2009 upticks in its revenue share for Unix servers, System x and storage.

The vendor said that it added $200 million from Unix-based customer migration sales in the fourth quarter 2009 and some $600 million for the year. Read more…

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