IBM led all server manufacturers in sales in the fourth quarter of calendar 2010, according to data released Thursday by market watcher Gartner. The data includes total revenue from mainframe, blade, industry standard, and other types of servers. For the three months ended Dec. 31, IBM posted worldwide server sales of $ 5.2 billion, up 26.4% from the same period in 2009. HP was second in overall sales, with revenue up 12.8% to $ 4.5 billion. Third-place Dell saw sales increase 26.4% to $ 1.9 billion while fourth-place Oracle suffered a 16.2% sales decline, to $ 806 million.
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