Report: IBM #1 in Worldwide Server Revenue, #1 in Blade, Unix and High-End Server Share Revenue in 3Q06

have been part of the system from inception and are now more important to clients than ever before. The continued momentum of System z certainly comes as no surprise to IBM."

IBM also grew 8.3 percent in UNIX® server revenue share to 32 percent, thereby regaining the number one spot.

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[1] Based on IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 3Q06, issued on November 21, 2006

[2] High-end enterprise servers are defined as those servers priced more than $500,000

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SOURCE:  IBM

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