Quanta’s No-Frills Servers

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Shira Ovide, Web Weapons: No-Frills Servers. Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2014.
online.wsj.com/articles/web-weapon-no-frills-servers-1402358378
(Besides low-cost, basic servers, “Facebook also is testing Quanta switches, which help direct Web traffic. Cisco Systems Inc and Juniper Networks Inc long have dominated that market”)

My comment:
(a)  View the graphic. I am unsure whether this report is worthy for you of reading its entirety. The graphic is based on an IDC report. I can not locate this report online, and it is unclear to me whether the graphic is based on volume (units shipped) or revenues. when legend of the graphic states, “Manufacturers like Quanta are stealiong computer server share* from the tech giants they originally supplied.”
(b) “Quanta 廣達 Chairman Barry LAM 林百里 [born in Shanghai, raised in Hong Kong and came to Taiwan as 僑生], known for his fashion-forward suits”

fashion-forward (adj)
dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/fashion-forward