Why so sad HPE, IBM, Lenovo? Server sales? Let's see... ah. Oh dear

HPE, IBM and Lenovo each lost their market-share footing in the server box shifting world at the end of 2016, according to Gartner and IDC. Server sales revenues also dropped in the final three months of the year. Gartner says worldwide server revenues declined 1.9 per cent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $14.84bn, and …

[Anonymous Coward]

But Meg got her bonus, so everything is fine, nothing to see here.

[Charlie Clark]

Only Dell and Huawei exhibited growth for the quarter

Coincidentally neither company has to produce public accounts.

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, since acquiring VMware, Dell Technologies does have to produce public financial records... So your insinuations are wrong.

[Quewwp]

Dear Gartner and IDC, Please expand the 'others' category, especially when it is the largest number!

Also, look into, and count, the ODM and in-house server activities. The bigger picture would likely show sales shifting from some big names to AWS and similar outsourcing, not just to other server vendors.

[John.laban]

Does the Data breakout OCP gear which an IDC intelligence report put at 50% by 2020

http://www.silicon.co.nz/open_compute.html

OCP open source vanity free servers are also being adopted by the world's Telcos for their new infrastructures and I wonder if this is factored into the data?

https://youtu.be/1KrUs1hCPes