Customers are moving from HP and Sun to IBM Power - the refreshed IDC UNIX Marketplace position

1. IBM Power Systems
Customers are moving to higher value
…as shown by the largest shift of customer spending in UNIX History
40%
UNIX Server Rolling Four Quarter Average Revenue Share
POWER6
Live Partition
Mobility
35% POWER5
Micro-Partitioning
30%
POWER4
25% Dynamic LPARs
20%
HP Sun IBM
15%
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Source: IDC Quarterly Server Tracker Q409 release, February 2010
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