Hewlett-Packard Surges in Servers

SAN FRANCISCO Hewlett-Packard(HPQ Quote) continued its conquest of the server market, turning in the strongest growth among the field of competitors in the third quarter, according to the latest industry scorecard.

And while Wall Street is fretting that a souring economic picture might crimp corporate spending on technology, server sales are not suffering yet.

"Any implications from financial market instability were not visible in the server market in the third quarter," said Errol Rasit, an analyst at the industry research firm Gartner, in a statement accompanying Monday's report. ...