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To: Lane who wrote (104711)	2/24/1999 9:57:00 PM
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Lane.......Agree Whole Heartedly............Tim

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Not certain if this was posted today.......DELL COMPUTER CORP [NASDAQ:DELL] Curr. Price: 83.25 Chg: -3.8125 << Prev Story of 61 Next >> GartnerGroup's Dataquest Reports U.S. Server Market Declined 4.3 Percent in the Fourth Quarter; Dataquest Predicts 99 Conference to Examine Future of the Server Industry Source: Business Wire SAN JOSE, CALIF. (Feb. 24) BUSINESS WIRE -Feb. 24, 1999--The U.S. server market experienced mixed results as revenue dropped 4.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 1998, while U.S. server shipments grew 15.9 percent over the fourth quarter of last year, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group, Inc. (NYSE:IT). The decrease in revenue is due to falling prices resulting in U.S. server revenue of $4.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 1998, down from $4.6 billion in the fourth quarter of 1997. Shipments reached 306,000 units. "Entry level server unit growth was greater than 19 percent, but revenues remained flat, as technology differentiation in this segment has all but disappeared and logistics execution has become more important," said Angela Dehzad, analyst for Dataquest's Servers Quarterly Statistics United States program. IBM held onto the No. 1 position in the fourth quarter despite flat growth over last year. Compaq had low growth of 4.6 percent, but remained in the No. 2 position. Three of the top five vendors showed very positive year-over-year growth, with Dell growing an astounding 95.3 percent (see Table 1). Table 1 U. S. Server Revenue Estimates for Fourth Quarter 1998 (Millions of Dollars) Company Q4/97 Q4/97 Market Q4/98 Q4/98 Market Growth (%) Revenue Share (%) Revenue Share (%) IBM 1,346 29.1 1,351 30.5 0.3 Compaq 711 15.4 744 16.8 4.6 Hewlett-Packard 580 12.5 685 15.4 17.9 Sun Microsystems 476 10.3 572 12.9 20.3 Dell 128 2.8 250 5.6 95.3 Others 1,389 30.0 832 18.8 -40.1 Total 4,631 100.0 4,433 100.0 -4.3 Source: Dataquest (December 1998) "The U.S. server market is continuing to consolidate and we expect in 1999 more vendors will change their business model focus from hardware to services and more efficient distribution models," said Kimball Brown, vice president and chief analyst for Dataquest's Servers Quarterly Statistics program. Brown will provide additional analysis on the server industry during the upcoming GartnerGroup's Dataquest Predicts 99 Conference to be held March 22-24 at the San Diego Hyatt. Dataquest analysts will provide their outlook for the server market, as well as other sectors of the high-technology industry. GartnerGroup's Spring Symposium/ITxpo 99 will be held concurrently at the San Diego Convention Center. Members of the press can register for the conference by contacting Josh Lefkowitz at 212/696-2000, or at jlefkowitz@tsipr.com. A complete agenda of the event is available on the GartnerGroup Web site at gartner.com. Additional information on the server market is available in Dataquest's Servers Quarterly Statistics United States program. This program publishes quarterly data on the U.S. server industry. This program covers various segments of the server industry, including system platforms, server classes and server types. Detailed information on this program is available on Dataquest's Web site at gartner.com. To subscribe to this program, please call 800/419-DATA, or 408/468-8009. More information about Dataquest's programs, descriptions of recent research reports, and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at dataquest.com. GartnerGroup's Dataquest is the recognized leader in providing the high-technology and financial communities with market intelligence for the semiconductor, computer systems and peripherals, communications, document management, software, and services sectors of the global information technology industry. As the world's leading authority on IT, GartnerGroup provides clients with a wide range of products and services in the areas of IT advisory services, measurement, research, decision support, analysis, and consulting. Founded in 1979, with headquarters in Stamford, Conn., GartnerGroup is at the center of a global community serving Fortune 1000 clients from 80 locations worldwide. Additional information about the company is available on the Internet at gartner.com. -0- ao/sf* dl/sf CONTACT: Dataquest Christy Pettey, 408/468-8312 christy.pettey@gartner.com KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA CONNECTICUT INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED TRADESHOW Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com << Prev Back To Headlines Next >> Format page for printing Quotes delayed 15 minutes for Nasdaq, 20 minutes for all other stocks.(2/24/99 9:53:38 PM) Enter ticker(s), get news: Retrieve: Three Months Two Months Past Month