Kelly Quinn Market Quotations

While users cited opportunities for improvement with each vendor, the level of satisfaction with all server vendors rated in this survey was very high within the market overall.

Market momentum in the blade market continued in the quarter with blade volumes up 50% year over year. Blade shipments increased more than 60% year over year in 2005 as IT managers began to adopt blades as a standard building block in their virtual IT infrastructures.

Their focus has been in a couple of key verticals, especially in markets like digital media - you can't go anywhere without having Apple in that market, ... They have done a really good job of penetrating that market - some of the scientific and technical markets are a crossover from that because of the high-powered computing aspects.