Addi,
I think the sell off was due to the news released last night.
01/28 23:11 H-P leaps past Sun to number one in
workstations
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co <HWP.N>.
leaped past Sun Microsystems Inc <SUNW.O>. 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 <MSFT.O> 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. <CPQ.N> 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. |
