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IBM PR: OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Thu Sep 19 23:59:26 1996
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Date: 20 Sep 1996 03:38:03 GMT
From: tsipple@vnet.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
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OS/2 Servers Gain Market Share in First Half of '96
OS/2 Warp Server Begins To Outpace its Predecessor
ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 17, 1996 ... IBM today announced that OS/2 servers grew
worldwide market share from 14.1 percent to 15.2 percent from the end of 1995
through the first half of 1996, according to IDC. The strong performance of
OS/2 servers was bolstered by the availability of OS/2 Warp Server at the end
of February.
Market anticipation for Warp Server was so high that OS/2 servers increased
share five percent in the second quarter over the first quarter of this year.
IDC defines share as determined by the number of new shipments and upgrades,
which totaled 178,100 OS/2 servers in the first half of this year.
OS/2 servers maintained the number two position in total server installed
base, including both file and print serving and application serving, against
Novell NetWare, and beat all UNIX systems combined. IBM also recorded the
second highest percentage growth rate of shipments from the end of 1995
through the first half of 1996. In addition, OS/2 servers grew share in the
U.S. to 15.2 percent in the first half of 1996, compared to 10.7 percent for
the same period in 1995.
"The bottom line is, OS/2 servers, particularly Warp Server, are gaining
market share in an extremely competitive environment by helping customers
build critically needed PC LAN infrastructures for intranet and Internet
application serving," said Art Olbert, vice president of server products, IBM
Personal Software Products. "In fact, in June Warp Server outsold its
predecessor, LAN Server, indicating early and strong market acceptance of Warp
Server by our customers, who range from small businesses to large
enterprises."
"With Warp Server, IBM has substantially enhanced the value proposition of its
strategic PC LAN OS/2 application server," said Phil Johnson, IDC global
director of UNIX and server operating environments. "The continuing growth of
IBM's OS/2 server shipments suggests customer commitment to this
well-established application server platform."
Some recent OS/2 server customer wins include: the State of California, which
purchased 300 Warp Server licenses; Banca Commerciale Italiana in Milan, which
bought 1,600 Warp Servers; Dean Witter, which is rolling out 900 Warp Servers;
Comerica Bank, which purchased 270 Warp Server licenses; Furrs-Bishops Inc.,
which is running Warp Server in 125 stores across 13 states; and Trustmark
National Bank, which is upgrading all of its servers to Warp Server. These
installations demonstrate the strength and breadth of Warp Server to satisfy
customer needs ranging from small business applications to mission-critical
operations.
OS/2 Warp Server: The Complete Business Solution
OS/2 Warp Server, released in February, is IBM's business server solution for
customers ranging from small businesses to large enterprises. It provides a
foundation for application serving and file and print sharing, plus a wealth
of integrated features including systems management, backup and recovery,
remote access, enhanced TCP/IP support, advanced print function and LAN
Internet access. Global directory and security services for OS/2 Warp Server
are available through the IBM Directory and Security Server for OS/2.
IBM also announced today a symmetric-mulitprocessing (SMP) feature which will
be available for the already feature-rich OS/2 Warp Server Advanced on Sept.
30.
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