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The number of servers shipped worldwide grew by over 7% in 2005, and revenues expanded by over 4% in 2005 according to a report by IDC.

In 2005, Windows became the server champ as spending on Windows server revenues advanced by almost 5% while UNIX revenues fell almost 6%. It was the first time Unix was not in top spot since IDC began the tracking report in 1996.

According to IDC, overall worldwide server revenue rose to $51.3 billion in 2005 up 4.4% from $49.1 billion in 2004.  Total units shipped expanded by 7.3%.

Factory revenues for Windows servers grew 4.7% year over year to $17.7 billion while Unix declined 5.9% to $17.5 billion.

Linux server revenues were $5.7 billion (up 20.8%), placing it in third place for the first time from an operating system perspective as customers continued to expand the role of Linux servers into an increasingly wider array of commercial and technical workloads.

IBM and Hewlett Packard were the largest sellers of servers worldwide. The two companies combined for almost 60% of server revenues.

IBM retained the number 1 spot in the worldwide server systems market with 32.9% market share in factory revenue, while HP continued to hold the number 2 spot with a 27.7% share.

Rounding out the top five were Dell with a 10.3% share, Sun Microsystems at 9.5%, and Fujitsu/Fujitsu-Siemens with a 5.7% market share. All other vendors had a combined market share of 14.0%

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