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To: stockman_scott who wrote (154160)	2/22/2000 12:28:00 AM
From: DYW	Respond to of 176388

Seems to me that Dell had the second biggest percentage gain in market share, beaten only by Sony. Growing market share in a rapidly expanding marketplace is always good news. Works out to 400,710 (or so) units shipped. That's up from about 212,517 units last year according to these numbers. Basically, taking the growth in the market and the growth in dell's market share together, shipments almost doubled. (And this isn't counting those lovely servers kemble's been salivating over. <gg>) Monday February 21, 10:58 pm Eastern Time Japan 1999 PC shipments up 36.7 pct yr/yr - IDC TOKYO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - International Data Corp (IDC) said on Tuesday Japanese shipments of personal computers (PCs) rose 36.7 percent from a year earlier to 10.83 million units in calendar 1999 mainly due to higher shipments of home-use PCs. Shipment of home-use PCs rose a steep 85.4 percent from a year earlier to 4.9 million units in 1999, it said. Launches of all-in-one type PCs, PCs using LCD (liquid crystal display), and design-conscious models by major makers generated consumers' demand. Shipment of desktop PCs rose 37.6 percent from a year earlier to 5.84 million units in 1999, and those of portable PCs rose 35.9 percent to 4.73 million units, it said. IDC Japan, a unit of U.S. market research firm International Data Corp, forecast that Japan's PCs market will expand by 20 percent from a year earlier to 12.96 million units in 2000. In 1999, Apple Computer Inc (NasdaqNM:AAPL - news) increased its share to 5.9 percent with shipments of 639,000 units from 5.1 percent with 407,000 in 1998, helped by strong demand for the iMac and iBook models, it said. Apple remained at sixth largest. Sony Corp also increased its share to 6.8 percent with 736,000 units, from 3.8 percent a year earlier and was ranked fifth largest in 1999 against eighth in 1998, helped by its VAIO series. NEC Corp topped the list with 2.40 million units shipped in 1999 but its share fell to 22.2 percent from 27.2 percent a year earlier, followed by Fujitsu Ltd with its share at 20.7 percent, down from 23.1 percent. International Business Machines Corp's (NYSE:IBM - news) Japanese unit, IBM Japan, had a share of 10.1 percent, down from 10.4 percent, while Toshiba had 7.2 percent, up from 7.0 percent and Hitachi Ltd had 4.3 percent, down from 5.3 percent. Compaq Computer Corp (NYSE:CPQ - news) had a share of 4.2 percent, down from 4.3 percent, and Dell Computer Corp (NasdaqNM:DELL - news) was 3.7 percent, up from 3.1 percent, it said.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (154160)	2/22/2000 6:16:00 AM
From: TechMkt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176388

DELL is the equipment provider for FAST and a major investor. Fez _______________________________ After the Agreement With Fast Search & Transfer ASA Ya.com Offers the Largest Search Engine in Spanish With Web Pages Selected From FAST Search, the World's Biggest Fastest Search Engine MADRID, Spain, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Jazztel Internet Factory (JIF, www.jifactory.com) has reached an agreement with the Norwegian company Fast Search & Transfer ASA (TM) (FAST) (TM) (www.fast.no) to implement its FAST Search (TM) (http://www.alltheweb.com) technology in Ya.com's Web Search Engine. This alliance has enabled JIF to become the first Spanish company to offer FAST technology. FAST Search is the world's biggest fastest search engine, with more than 300 million web pages searched in under one half second and support for 25 languages. Jazztel Internet Factory's agreement with FAST allows Ya.com to offer the world's biggest Spanish language Web page catalog to all Spanish speaking Internet users. In an attempt to anticipate an increasing demand for high quality searches, Ya.com has also made available its directory of over 85,000 web addresses classified in 2,500 categories. The agreement with FAST is a very important advance for Ya.com that allows Internet users to simplify and optimize their searches, and offers them the very best search tools available. In addition, it boosts the Ya.com search engine to the leading position in the Spanish-speaking world, with search capabilities beyond its competitors. Search and Find Recently, FAST has been in the news both in Spain and in the US because of its rapid growth. It has become the most powerful of new generation search engines, topping prestigious engines such as AltaVista, Inktomi and Northern Light, according to independent experts. Ya.com's new FAST Search is very easy to use. To search, the user enters either one or a set of key words, and in less than one half second of search time on average, receives results consisting of a list of references to Web pages, all intelligently related to the initial request. Search engines are increasingly in demand because users are forced to browse through huge numbers of Internet references daily, making a high quality search tool necessary to successfully navigate around the Web. FAST Search is powered by large arrays of Dell PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage subsystems and uses patented algorithms developed after many years of research by the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology. The unique FAST Search technology generates a search system that is capable of minimizing redundant and obsolete references -- a growing problem on the Net -- and provides Internet users with high quality results that are extremely relevant to user requests.