>Walk in to any datacenter. HP and Dell absolutely dominate. Third place is Sun. Fourth is Supermicro.
This is also what I thought. (though, places I've worked, ODMs and supermicros dominated, followed by dell, with hp dead last, but yeah, the quote from IBM never even made it to technical evaluation where I would see it.)
However, I went looking for a source[1] before I posted further up this thread. Apparently, IBM sells more servers than dell or hp (but not more than both put together)
Hm. reading further, I see numbers between 10% and 30% of IBM's server revenues being the high-end stuff they are keeping. So that could bump them below both dell and HP, in terms of just x86 servers, but even knocking 1/3rd off, they still sell a lot more x86 than I thought.
This is also what I thought. (though, places I've worked, ODMs and supermicros dominated, followed by dell, with hp dead last, but yeah, the quote from IBM never even made it to technical evaluation where I would see it.)
However, I went looking for a source[1] before I posted further up this thread. Apparently, IBM sells more servers than dell or hp (but not more than both put together)
Hm. reading further, I see numbers between 10% and 30% of IBM's server revenues being the high-end stuff they are keeping. So that could bump them below both dell and HP, in terms of just x86 servers, but even knocking 1/3rd off, they still sell a lot more x86 than I thought.
[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2013/08/29/ibm-regain...