FREE DOWNLOAD FOR REGISTERED USERS...Results from our 4Q'07 Unix Vendor Preference Survey show Hewlett Packard making remarkable gains in both technology and customer support categories. In the "Vendor Face-Off" section of the survey, HP rocketed from a third place finish last year to almost unseating IBM for overall honors in '07....the closest result to date...

FREE DOWNLOAD FOR REGISTERED USERS...Results are in for our 4Q’07 Unix Vendor Preference Survey, and the competition between the big three vendors (IBM, HP, and Sun) is closer than ever. IBM wins top honors, but only narrowly beats a resurgent Hewlett- Packard. Sun is in third place in our Vendor Face-Off categories, but shows strength in several other survey categories and unusually solid customer loyalty. This report is a brief overview of the high level results; subsequent reports will lay out detailed findings on a wide variety of Unix and data center issues...

FREE DOWNLOAD FOR REGISTERED USERS...Prior to Opteron, AMD processors were relegated to the role of low-cost Intel alternative, and had little presence in the enterprise server market. Opteron changed all that and vaulted AMD into the big time – their server processor market share approached 30%. Intel responded with a furious effort to regain the performance, energy efficiency, and price/performance high ground. Our question is: Have x86 customers developed lasting loyalties to either AMD or Intel, or do they simply look for the best processor at the time? To get some answers, we asked participants in our GCG x86 Server Vendor Preference Survey to weigh in on these issues...

FREE DOWNLOAD FOR REGISTERED USERS... First public release of results from our 2nd annual x86 Server Vendor Preference Survey. In this survey, we had 297 enterprise x86 server customers give us their opinion of the major vendors, along with their take on various industry trends.

FREE DOWNLOAD FOR REGISTERED USERS...Is the Unix market dying? Not according to the 277 enterprise customers polled in our 4Q’06 Unix Vendor Preference Survey. The data from these customers shows that the Unix market is alive, well, and likely to grow in the future – particularly on the high-end…