Market Overview 2003: Server-Based Computing

3/27/2003 » Giga expects the overall server-based computing (SBC) market to grow an average of 10 percent to 15 percent in 2003 and 2004 to approximately $1.4 billion in 2003. However, revenue growth in 2002 declined slightly even as license sales increased due to growing volume license purchases. Citrix continues to dominate the SBC market with 70 percent to 75 percent share in 2003. Stand-alone deployments of Microsoft Windows Terminal Services (TS) are likely to represent about 20 percent of the market this year, with other smaller vendors making up less than 10 percent of the market combined.

Technical improvements in SBC products have continued to mitigate issues around bandwidth, printing and security. Although Giga initially expected the SBC and enterprise portal markets to start converging in 2002, this trend is not likely to occur in the next two to three years. Instead, SBC use continues to focus on remote access and application deployment in highly distributed enterprises. Although pressure to reduce spending has led companies to carefully evaluate all IT investment decisions, SBC can drive significant cost savings for application deployment and management, especially in distributed environments. Remote workers, telecommuters and mobile workers can benefit significantly by gaining access to desktop applications from a wide range of devices and connectivity options.

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