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IBM led the worldwide server market in Q2 2011 with a 30.5% market share, topping HP which fell to the second position after its market share dropped to 29.8%, down 1.7 percentage points from Q1 2011.

As the Oracle-Sun combo heats up hardware competition, IBM's Power7 servers aim to dominate.

A "state official" has told the Charlotte Observer that a bill nearing approval that would bend tax rules for a single, unnamed company are actually meant to accommodate a specific Apple project, which might otherwise be located in another state. The deal would give the tax breaks to companies with a minority market share in North Carolina, but.....

Silicon Graphics filed for bankruptcy-court protection and agreed to sell its business to server provider Rackable Systems for $25 million.

The merger, if completed, would mark a big consolidation step in the market for server computers used in corporate data centers, one that could prompt an antitrust challenge.