Arghh! My eyes!
Sorry, but the use of italics everywhere here just makes it look like someone screwed up the HTML.
Growth in the UK server market evaporated in Q2 as x86 platform sales dipped and the already dwindling base of non-x86 machines collapsed. According to abacus stroker IDC, UK factory revenues declined 14 per cent year-on-year to $481m and shipments fell three per cent to 73,000 units. In terms of market value, x86 sales …
> "Oracle has placed all its bets behind software and engineered appliances, it's just given up on Sparc – at least that's what it looks like," said the IDC man.
Don' they mean, the customers have given up on SPARC, I'm sure Oracle would love to sell lots of the things but the party's moved on.
Erm, UK will be Dell only shortly, all run by armies of clueless muppets. Except for government IT which will be Fujitsu, and run by lower grade muppets. Seriously, the sooner we move to an economy driven solely by ringtones, advertising, payday loans, and moneysupermarket.com the better! Epic!
I'm moving to Switzerland.