Beaverton, Oregon – December 12, 2006 – Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) announced today that IBM (IBM) is the leading vendor according to UNIX customers, according to a newly published IT industry research study by conducted by the firm.  GCG’s 4th Quarter UNIX Vendor Preference Survey queried 277 enterprise UNIX customers about their experiences with and perceptions of the major system vendors on a wide range of criteria. IBM notched wins in both technology and vendor support survey categories.

Beaverton, Oregon – June 20, 2006 – Enterprise x86 server customers narrowly favor IBM over HP, according to IT industry analyst firm Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) in a newly published research study. GCG’s 1st Quarter 2006 x86 Server Vendor Preference Survey queried 212 enterprise customers about their experiences with and perceptions of the major system vendors on a wide range of criteria. IBM notched wins in technology, performance and service categories while HP led on reliability, availability and manageability criteria. Sun Microsystems, with their line of Opteron servers, finished in 3rd place and Dell, one of the largest x86 server vendors, came in last.

Beaverton, Oregon – December 14, 2005 – IBM is the leading UNIX vendor according to among UNIX customers, according to IT industry analyst firm Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) in a newly published research study. GCG’s 4th Quarter UNIX Vendor Preference Survey queried 197 enterprise UNIX customers about their experiences with and perceptions of the major system vendors on a wide range of criteria….

New UNIX Market Survey Shows Growing Consolidation Trend

 Customers Increasingly See Cost and Manageability Benefits from Consolidating Server Hardware

Beaverton, Oregon – February 14, 2005 – A new UNIX market study reveals a growing trend in which IT departments are abandoning multi-system ‘server farms’ in favor of consolidating multiple server workloads and applications on fewer, more powerful UNIX servers.