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To: uu who wrote (7448)	1/29/1998 7:11:00 PM
From: 2brasil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Thats what I am trying to find out I am Brazil and my brother heard something, he wasn't paying much attention but I think it was something about he wasn't into mergers/buy outs and something else he didn't catch. Bruce

To: uu who wrote (7448)	1/29/1998 7:39:00 PM
From: Dan Good	Respond to of 64865

Addi, I think the sell off was due to the news released last night. 01/28 23:11 H-P leaps past Sun to number one in workstations SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co <HWP.N>. leaped past Sun Microsystems Inc <SUNW.O>. and became the leading company in the $15.8 billion workstation market in1997, according to data from International Data Corp. onWednesday. The workstation market share data combines both UNIX-based workstations and personal workstations running Microsoft Corp's <MSFT.O> Windows NT operating system. In recent quarters, Windows NT personal workstations have been growing faster than UNIX-based workstations. IDC said that in 1997, H-P had total workstation shipments of 330,559 units and a unit growth rate of 43 percent. Sun Microsystems, formerly the market leader, shipped 285,815 units in 1997 and its workstation sales declined 3.3 percent in unit terms. H-P also surpassed Compaq Computer Corp. <CPQ.N> in the personal workstation market, by shipping 222,394 units in 1997, with a 17.2 percent market share of the personal workstation segment. Compaq shipped a total of 199,700 units in 1997. Workstations are powerful computers that are used by engineers, graphics designers and scientists. Personal workstations also are increasingly used by small businesses for graphics design. A year ago, H-P was the number two workstation vendor behind Sun, with Digital Equipment Corp. number three.