Shipments of computer servers fell in the first quarter of 2002 for the first time in four years on a quantitative basis, a market research agency said Wednesday.
The flagging economy affected demand from corporate users, sending shipments in the January-March quarter skidding 5.7 percent from a year earlier to 122,416, with the percentage fall signifying a drop of 7,400, according to Gartner Japan Ltd., the Japanese affiliate of GartnerGroup Inc. of the United States.
The 5.7 percent decline marked the sharpest decline since the second quarter of 1998, when server shipments saw a 6.6 percent year-on-year drop, in the wake of the Asian currency crisis.