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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (46978)	2/13/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeets, I don't have the URL, but the story was posted by Yiwu, who had the URL in his messages. If you check his notes of 10 days ago or so you will find it. I remember large servers down 8% and pc servers up 8.2%. However, IDC made a point that the pc servers were up due to IBM stuffing the channel. And both of those numbers are relative to 40-70% growth in 1996 and 1997. MB

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (46978)	2/13/1999 10:14:00 PM
From: gbh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeeter Bug, MB was just a tad exaggerating the IDC figures, but his memory is pretty good. Here's the link. idc.com See two 1/18/99 releases for Server market data. See a 1/11/99 release for Disk Storage System data Looks to me like the server market slowed to 8% growth, from 42% and 50% the previous two years, but DELL grew at a whopping 76%. And the storage system market grew at 11.9%, its best rate in 5 years. And DELL, "Dell raised its position in 1998 to join the billion dollar storage club with 3.4% share and $946 million in worldwide revenues. Dell's shipments consist almost entirely of Windows NT (2000) and NOS, the two operating environments for which IDC expects the highest growth rate in disk storage systems from 1998-2002." Gary