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[August 27, 2008]

Report: IBM Continues as Number One Server Vendor Worldwide in Second Quarter 2008

(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ARMONK, NY, August 27 / MARKET WIRE/ --

IDC reported today that IBM (NYSE: IBM)
continues to hold the number one position in worldwide server revenue share
with a 33.2 percent revenue share in the second quarter of 2008 --
surpassing HP with a 5.8 percent gap. IBM also topped the industry with a
27 percent revenue growth in overall servers from first quarter 2008. [1]

For the second quarter, IDC noted that IBM ranked number one across all
Unix servers, IDC's server category of $250,000 or more, and the $10,000 or
more price point. IDC's server revenue share details include:

Among all Unix servers, IBM Power Systems generated 35.7 percent
revenue share.

For IDC's category of $250,000 or more servers, IBM System z and other
IBM $250,000 plus servers beat the competition with a 37 percent and 24.8
percent revenue share respectively -- taking 61.8 percent of industry's
total revenue share.

For IDC's category of $10,000 or more, IBM obtained 48.4 percent
revenue share.

[1] IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, August 2008

Contact
Mylissa Tsai
IBM Media Relations
Phone: (914) 766-4294
Email: tsaim@us.ibm.com

Copyright ? 2008 Marketwire

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