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To: jim kelley who wrote (73066)	12/2/1999 9:42:00 PM
From: Piotr Koziol	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

jk, just to be a bit more precise, could you define what is meant by traffic goes through their servers ??? In my simple-minded reasoning the SAME traffic can go thru SEVERAL vendors' servers while travelling thru the net. Another way to put it: maybe CPQ could claim that 100% of Web traffic goes thru THEIR computers :^) ... inquiring minds would like to know ... /Piotr

To: jim kelley who wrote (73066)	12/2/1999 11:11:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

CPQ has 31% of the web server business on a unit basis, which is what the IDC study uses for % share. DELL has 9% according to my most recent data. But I also have IBM at 9%, SUNW at 13%. Almost everyone can claim that some big percentage of web traffic goes through their boxes since the net is heterogeneous and the average route hits 5 servers... anyone with any presence at all stands a good chance of picking up traffic. But there is no way to measure that statistic so this is just a "you can't prove it's wrong" claim by SUNW.