Server Market in Europe as seen by IDC

TPM cites in “RISC and Itanium Server Makers Do Well in Europe, Says IDC” a research of IDC about the server market in Europe:

Growth for high-end servers was strong, with banks, telcos, and manufacturers picking up lots of iron and with Power6 and Sparc machines doing particularly well, according to IDC
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Sun Microsystems came in third in EMEA, helped hugely by sales of the Sparc Enterprise M line of rebadged Fujitsu iron, with $577 million in sales, up 1.9 percent.

But there is another interesting number in the article:

Windows servers had a 10.3 percent growth in the quarter in EMEA, but Linux server sales actually fell by 1.8 percent, the first time since early 2002 when Linux showed a decline.

This is an interesting development as the complete Unix server market grew at 8 percent.