Server Sales Slow As Buyers Await New Processors
September 4, 2012 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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No one was expecting for the server market to turn in a particularly strong second quarter, with so many different chips for systems either just entering the market or about to enter the market in the summer and fall. New processors always mean price/performance improvements in systems, so some customers buying now insist in price kits on current iron and others defer purchases entirely so they can get the shiny new boxes. Either way, sales in the current quarter have to go down. And that is precisely what the box counters at IDC have figured out as they cases the |