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Looking
for a silver lining in a dull market
After
shrinking by 4 percent last year, the server market stabilised in
H1 2002 to the extent that a contraction in the Intel space was
offset by modest growth in the UNIX segment. On the technology front,
IBM and HP rolled out dual processor blades. With Big Blue releasing
the 16-way x440, Intel boxes continued their charge up the performance
ladder, says Prashant L Rao
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