Last week, the box counters at Gartner put out their report on server shipments and revenues globally in the fourth quarter of 2008, and now, they want to drill down a bit for the EMEA region.

Gartner believes that customers in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa bought 704,830 servers of all types and stripes in the final quarter of the year, a decline in unit shipments of 9.2 per cent. That was better, as it turned out, than the 11.2 per cent shipment decline on a global basis. That's the good news. The bad news is that revenues fell faster in EMEA than for the world at large, with sales dropping by 20.6 per cent to $4.32bn. The global market plummeted by 15.1 per cent to $13.1bn in Q4.

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