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Volume 4, Number 22 -- June 3, 2008
 
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U.S. Drags Down Server Sales in Q1, But Weak Dollar Helps
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Depending on how you want to look at it, the United States both helped and hurt sales in the global server market in the first quarter of 2008, according to statistics compiled by the box counters at IDC. The jittery economy in the United States has caused companies large and small to pull back on server spending, but at the same time the weak dollar compared to currencies in overseas markets that are experiencing decent growth in server sales as their economies build up and are amplifying the revenues as those sales are booked back in the States for the major server players. READ MORE >


 

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Editors: Dan Burger, Timothy Prickett Morgan, and Hesh Wiener
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
U.S. Drags Down Server Sales in Q1, But Weak Dollar Helps

Top Mainframe Stories From Around the Web

Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings

Big Iron

BACK ISSUES




The Four Hundred
More Power Transitions Are on the Way

U.S. Drags Down Server Sales in Q1, But Weak Dollar Helps

Server Branding 101: Big Name, Big Game?

Java Compute Appliances Upgraded by Azul Systems

Survival of the Fittest: Ensuring IT Is Providing You with an Innovative Edge

The Linux Beacon
Red Hat Continues Feature Expansion with RHEL 5.2

Novell Delivers Service Pack 2 for SUSE Linux

The Server Biz Enjoys the X64 Upgrade Cycle in Q1

As I See It: The Programmer as Artist

Global Sales Save HP's Financial Cookies in the Second Quarter

The Windows Observer
Microsoft Reverses Course, Opens Office to ODF

Intel and Itanium Partners Gear Up for Quad-Core Tukwilas

Hyper-V RC1 Released as Microsoft Shares Performance Data

Paglo Aims to be the Google of IT Management

The Server Biz Enjoys the X64 Upgrade Cycle in Q1

The Unix Guardian
The Unix Competition Is Still as Heated as Ever

The Server Biz Enjoys the X64 Upgrade Cycle in Q1

Intel and Itanium Partners Gear Up for Quad-Core Tukwilas

As I See It: The Programmer as Artist

Reseller Mainline to Acquire Competitor Cornerstone


 
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