EMEA sales of servers in Q3 2006 posted positive annual growth in both revenue and units for the first time in a year, partly due to renewed mainframe and RISC upgrade activity across multiple sectors in Western Europe. The YTY revenue growth rate hit the 5% mark to total $3,926 mln, with shipments growing a moderate 1% over the same period a year ago, to 558,000 units.
| EMEA server market in Q3 2006 | |||||
| Q3 2006 | Q3 2005 | Growth | |||
| Vendor | Revenue | Share | Revenue | Share | YTY |
| IBM | $1,339 | 34% | $1,187 | 32% | 13% |
| Hewlett-Packard | $1,230 | 31% | $1,262 | 34% | -3% |
| Sun Microsystems | $428 | 11% | $343 | 9% | 25% |
| Fujitsu Siemens | $304 | 8% | $332 | 9% | -9% |
| Dell | $301 | 8% | $282 | 8% | 7% |
| Others | $324 | 8% | $339 | 9% | -5% |
| Total | $3,926 | 100% | $3,746 | 100 | 5% |
| Source: IDC | |||||