IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker greatly enhances clients' ability to respond quickly and effectively to today's dynamic server market. This product provides insight into customer trends by delivering geography-specific vendor-, family-, and model-level detail across all server segments. This product presents market data in an easy-to-use, interactive format that allows clients to easily view specific submarkets in customizable layouts. IDC's Tracker products provide reliable, accurate, and independent market research as a foundation for creating quantitative market analyses and studying historical trends.

• Regions: United States, Canada, Latin America, Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Asia/Pacific, Japan, Middle East/Africa
• Countries: Country information available on 70+ countries
• Vendors broken down by product families and server models
• Operating systems: Linux, Unix, Windows, NetWare, z/OS, i5/OS, OpenVMS, and others.
• CPU type: x86-32, x86-64, RISC, CISC, EPIC
• Segments measurement: Factory revenue, customer revenue, units

IDC's server revenue includes components that are typically sold today as a server bundle, including frame or cabinet and all cables, processors, memory, communication boards, and OS (other bundled software is included only in AS/400). Throughout the year, IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker will address the following topics:

• Server class: Volume, midrange enterprise, high-end enterprise
• Price bands
• Server type: x86 or server
• CPU capability and socket capability
• Average core count of a server model
• U-rating and form factor: Rack optimized, non-rack optimized, blades
• CPU processor brands
• Shipment type: New shipments or upgrades (CPUs added to existing servers)
• Time frame covered: Quarterly data as of 1Q96

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. Which vendors are gaining or losing market share?
2. How does average selling value vary from region to region?
3. Has Linux taken market share from other operating systems?
4. How does a vendor's growth in the United States compare with that in Japan?
5. Have EPIC processors begun to replace RISC servers?

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, which tracks 180 competitors in the market, is an essential tool for server vendors. This product is updated quarterly, providing clients with the latest information for ongoing business planning activities. Built on the foundation of IDC's worldwide network of experienced market analysts, this research uses both top-down and bottom-up methodologies to match operational market knowledge with global company financial modeling.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market.

• Quarterly data files are delivered nine weeks after the end of each calendar quarter.
• With the purchase of IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, clients receive trend explanations and detailed insights, one day of onsite training at any location in the United States, and inquiry time for supporting questions regarding data usage.
• Written analyses, trend explanations, and insights are further provided in research from IDC's Enterprise Servers: Technology Markets and Datacenter Trends and Strategies continuous intelligence services (CISs).