This IDC study provides a detailed analysis of China's server market, including server market accelerators and inhibitors and a server market breakdown by broad size, OS, chip type, vertical industry, and vendor performance. It also provides a 2007?2011 market forecast by OS and chip type.

"Server vendors should open their eyes to find new growth areas. Vendors should avoid aggressive competition in tier 1 cities and instead to pay more attention to delving deeper into lower tiers. Vendors should also develop final tiers resellers, such as systems integrators (SIs) and ISVs to cover more regions and get closer to their end users," says Thomas Zhou, senior analyst, Computing Systems Research, IDC China.