Virtual servers profits not enough to buy coffee: First quarter worst in 12 years

Or could it be all that virtualization means fewer boxes?   It's certainly true in my QA labs.  It had to hit somewhere, no?

IDC: First quarter worst for servers in 12 years • The Register. The volume server market (machines that cost under $25,000) took the biggest hit in Q1 2009, with revenues falling 30.5 per cent. Midrange machines (which cost between $25,000 and $500,000) held up relatively well, with only 13.6 per cent revenue decline. High end systems, despite all the blathering about the benefits of running virtual and logical machines on big iron, nonetheless saw a 19.5 per cent revenue decline in the quarter.