Although we surpassed HP on th UNIX workstations, we were behind overall. Our workstations are all UNIX and account for 285.5k. While HP's 108k account for only about 1/3 of their workstation business.
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.
A year ago, H-P was the number two workstation vendor behind Sun, with
Digital Equipment Corp. number three.
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