H-P leaps past Sun to number one in workstations
Reuters Story - January 28, 1998 23:11
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co
. leaped past Sun Microsystems Inc . and became
the leading company in the $15.8 billion workstation market
in1997, according to data from International Data Corp.
onWednesday.
The workstation market share data combines both UNIX-based
workstations and personal workstations running Microsoft Corp's
Windows NT operating system. In recent quarters,
Windows NT personal workstations have been growing faster than
UNIX-based workstations.
IDC said that in 1997, H-P had total workstation shipments
of 330,559 units and a unit growth rate of 43 percent. Sun
Microsystems, formerly the market leader, shipped 285,815 units
in 1997 and its workstation sales declined 3.3 percent in unit
terms.
H-P also surpassed Compaq Computer Corp. in the
personal workstation market, by shipping 222,394 units in 1997,
with a 17.2 percent market share of the personal workstation
segment. Compaq shipped a total of 199,700 units in 1997.
Workstations are powerful computers that are used by
engineers, graphics designers and scientists. Personal
workstations also are increasingly used by small businesses for
graphics design.
A year ago, H-P was the number two workstation vendor
behind Sun, with Digital Equipment Corp. number three. |
