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To: hpeace who wrote (9818)	11/29/1997 12:51:00 AM
From: Jorge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Steve, do you know of any companies/web sites who track PC sales on a weekly basis?.....Recently there was a stat which said the sales of PC's two weeks ago matched they low for the year........Would lilke to know if post-Thanksgiving to Christmas period will play catch up and do what CPQ (and others) usually do, which is sell to beat the band...?..........George

To: hpeace who wrote (9818)	11/29/1997 9:43:00 AM
From: chirodoc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

barrons on comdex pc's--who says compaq won't burn the competition in emerging markets? <<<<<<Meanwhile, the dynamics of the Brazilian PC market have been shifting against Vitech. Luis Anavitarte, a senior analyst at San Jose-based Dataquest, says sales of brands sold only in Brazil have been losing ground to multinationals like Compaq Computer, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Acer, as the big boys cut prices to keep up with the locals. In the third quarter, for instance, sales of Compaq computers grew 75% in Brazil, despite the slight drop in overall demand. Compaq now has 16% of the Brazilian market, more than twice the No. 2 competitor, a Brazilian manufacturer called Itautec.