This IDC presentation was presented to clients in London in August 2007 and details the EMEA server tracker results for 2Q07.

The slide set presents:

• EMEA server market trends summary for 2Q07
• Regional and country highlights
• Vendors update and competitive highlights
• Segment views:
• By CPU type
• By operating system
• By form factor
• By socket capability
• By price band

The EMEA server market continued to enjoy strong demand in 2Q07, with the fourth consecutive quarter of factory revenue growth. Sales reached more than $4 billion for the second quarter in a row, up 6% year on year. More than 600,000 servers were shipped in EMEA, an increase of 8% over the same period in 2006. Three-quarters of these servers were shipped in Western Europe.

Nathaniel Martinez, program manager for European enterprise servers at IDC, said: "Renewed corporate interest in virtualized environments running on more richly configured x86 servers resulted in this segment generating 50% of the factory revenue for the first time in EMEA, with Windows- and Linux-based servers stealing market share from Unix. IT managers continue to invest in consolidating their infrastructure, using virtualization to improve IT services management and business management, while considering issues of energy efficiency and green computing."

According to Beatriz Valle, European enterprise servers analyst at IDC, "The ratio of unit to revenue growth was more balanced than in recent quarters. Average selling prices remained stable due to increased price competition in the run-up to the forthcoming adoption of the quad-core technology. The server market is producing fresh partnerships and alliances between hardware and software vendors and server and chip makers, as vendors try to leverage their different technologies to increase their competitive edge."