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To: Holger Johannsen who wrote (5708)	11/18/1997 11:34:00 AM
From: xiangheng xu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Any comments here? It looks like that sun is losing market share to hwp Select: Enter Symbol: Find Symbol * Please note: both stock and option quotes may be retrieved using stock symbols. Hewlett-Packard ships V-class computers PALO ALTO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday said it started shipping its high-performance HP 9000 V-series computers, having booked more than 200 orders for the pricey machines, which have helped boost demand for other models. Janice Chaffin, general manager of HP's High Performance Systems Division, said the company expected its shipments in its fiscal first quarter to the end of January to top Sun Microsystems Inc.'s SUNW.O Starfire systems in both units shipped and revenues for its first 12 months. "We think we'll exceed (Sun's 12-month Starfire) revenues," Chaffin said in an interview. In addition, anticipation of the V-class servers has given a fresh boost to its overall server business, according to other Hewlett-Packard executives who earlier spoke during interviews and a conference call, after the company reported its results for fiscal 1997, ended Oct. 31. Growth in sales of the company's Unix servers, which are used at the center of computer networks, has roughly doubled since earlier in the 1997 fiscal year, after the announcement of the V-class, the executives said. "We're running at a growth rate of Unix servers at over twice the market rate," said one executive, adding the market is growing at about 10 to 12 percent a year. He said HP server sales had risen sharply since July. "We saw our win rate...versus Sun increase from 45 percent to 70 percent during that period," he said. "Our win rate has almost doubled from what we'd seen earlier in the year, and they are our major competitor," another HP executive told analysts in a conference call. A spokeswoman for Sun Microsystems' hardware unit said the company expected the new HP products, which are priced starting at under $200,000 but can be configured in models costing upwards of $2 million, will compete more directly with its Sun's Enterprise 6000 models than Sun's top-end Starfire. REUTERS Rtr 20:08 11-17-97 Copyright 1997, Reuters News Service Login / Home / Portfolio Demo / Trading Demo / Market Monitor Quotes & News / Research & Ideas / Customer Service c 1997 DLJdirect Inc. All Rights Reserved. Member SIPC and NASD. Copyright c 1996 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.