<A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Gartner-HP-Edges-Out-IBM-in-Server-Revenue-Shipments/?kc=EWKNLNAVFEA1">Hewlett-Packard edged out IBM</A> in both worldwide server revenue and shipments in the first quarter of 2008 as businesses bought x86-based systems to help build out Web data centers and emerging market countries continued to invest in their infrastructure, according to a May 22 report from Gartner.

In the first quarter, HP's server revenue topped $4 billion, narrowly placing the company ahead of IBM, which had revenue of about $3.9 billion, an increase of only 2 percent, according to the Gartner survey. For years, IBM had been beating out all other competition in terms of system revenue, but HP has made up significant ground in the last several quarters.