Quoting Gartner, the article on the ZDNET website reports that shipments from all manufacturers rose 23 percent over the previous year.

The article states:

"In terms of form factors, blade servers performed the best, with sales up 40.7 percent year-on-year. As for vendors, HP took over from IBM as the leading server manufacturer by revenue. In the quarter, HP had 31.5 per cent of revenue worldwide, up from 28.8 percent the previous year, while IBM fell from 30.7 percent to 28.4 percent. Dell remained in third with 15.6 percent, with Fujitsu in fourth place at six percent. Fifth-place Oracle, which acquired server maker Sun in April 2009, saw its share drop from 9.6 percent to 5.6 percent. "