Poland’s server market dropped

Over 43,000 servers worth almost USD 212 million were sold in Poland in 2009, a study by IDC Polska shows. This represents a 34% drop in value y-o-y.

2009 was the second year when drops were noted. In 2008 however, the market shrank only by 4% as compared with 2007, wnp.pl reports.

‘The server market is a good barometer indicating the readiness of Polish companies, especially those operating in finance, telecom and services sectors, to invest. Despite their hopes, the situation of server producers was not improved by public IT projects, which were largely cut due to budget savings and prolonging tender procedures’ IDC analyst Jarosław Smulski is quoted in the communiqué.

The value of x86 servers market (working under Windows, Linux and less often Solaris) decreased by 31%, while RISC, EPIC and CISC (mainly unix and mainframe class servers) noted a drop on 38% y-o-y., wnp.pl reports.

IDC Server Tracker is a quarterly research of the server market in Poland pertaining to x86, RISC, EPIC and CISC servers.

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ECONOMIC MONITOR

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• ● In December 2009 and January 2010, as in previous months in the second half of 2009, the Polish economy stood out against other countries in terms of GDP growth. Poland’s economic growth was higher than projected and higher than in other European countries.
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• In 2009 construction output increased by 3.7%.
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• Retail sales increase in most product groups.
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• On the Warsaw Stock Exchange, stock prices were very volatile in January 2010.
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• At the end of December 2009 the registered unemployment rate (claimant count rate) amounted to 11.9% versus 11.4% in November.
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• At the end of January the president signed the 2010 budget bill into law. The bill was adopted by the parliament on December 18.
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• In the fourth quarter of 2009 the Polish economy turned out to be more resistant to the global crisis than had been projected and than the economies of Polish neighbours, something which boosts optimism in forecasts for 2010 and the next years.
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Retail sales growth in nominal terms accelerated in June to 6.4% y-o-y from 4.3% y-o-y in May. The increase was higher than expected. In real terms, retail sales growth accelerated to 4.5% y-o-y from 2.0% y-o-y. June was a consecutive month with retail sales figures stronger than expected, which indicates that consumption is recovering after it slowed significantly at the beginning of the year. Private consumption is driven by an improvement on the labour market coupled with a rise in disposable incomes. In Q2 2010 retail sales grew by around 3% y-o-y in nominal terms and around 1% y-o-y in real terms. On the basis of retail sales and industrial production data, it can be estimated that the GDP growth rate was close to 3%.

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