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To: StanX Long who wrote (61056)	2/28/2002 12:44:33 AM
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Japan Server Market Growth Slows on Weak Spending, Gartner Says By Keiko Kambara 02/27 20:06 quote.bloomberg.com Tokyo, Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The growth rate for computer- server shipments in Japan will slow further this year because the recession is prompting companies to spend less, a market researcher said. Shipments in Japan by NEC Corp. and other makers of servers, which run Web pages, rose 19.4 percent to 460,000 units in 2001, compared with a 29.2 percent increase the previous year, Gartner Japan Ltd. said in a release. Sales fell 1.7 percent to 889.6 billion yen ($6.6 billion) after increasing 14.7 percent in 2000. Japan's third recession in a decade is discouraging consumers and companies from buying equipment. Domestic personal-computer shipments last year fell for the first time in three years and mobile-phone sales dropped for the first time ever. ``As the business sentiment worsens, the growth rate in the domestic server market in 2002 will be lower than 2001,'' said Tadaaki Mataga, a senior analyst at Gartner, in the release. Server makers will have to depend more on government orders as companies curb spending, he said.