March 15, 1999, Issue: 833
Section: Research & Analysis: The Numbers Sheet
Best-Selling Servers -- Percent Of Resellers Citing Each
Vendor
John Roberts
The percentage of resellers citing white-box units as their best-selling servers
has declined slightly over the past year. Vendors such as IBM and Dell have
picked up the slack, with Dell in particular seeing a sharp increase in the
percentage of resellers, from 3 percent to 9.5 percent, citing its servers as their
best-sellers.
March 15, 1999, Issue: 833
Section: Research & Analysis: The Numbers Sheet
Best-Selling Notebook PCS -- Percent Of Resellers Citing
Each Vendor
John Roberts
IBM and Dell have seen strong increases in the percentage of resellers citing
their notebooks as best selling over the past year, according to data from the
monthly CRN hardware poll.
Toshiba has seen a more modest gain, while Acer and Compaq have seen
declines in the percentage of resellers citing their units as best selling. Vendor
concentration in the small and midsize company market continues to increase,
according to the data.
March 15, 1999, Issue: 833
Section: Research & Analysis: The Numbers Sheet
Best-Selling Desktops -- Percent Of Resellers Citing Each
Vendor
John Roberts
Over the past year, Dell and Hewlett-Packard have seen significant increases in
the percentage of resellers citing their desktops as best-selling, according to data
from the monthly CRN hardware poll. For example, over the first two months of
this year, an average of 8 percent of respondents said HP was the
manufacturer of their best-selling desktop, compared with 5 percent in the
comparable period a year earlier. These gains have come at the expense of
Compaq and IBM, according to the data. |
