Computer firms feel the byte.WORLDWIDE sales of personal coputers are down for the first time. Figures from market research firm Gartner (Gartner, Inc., Stamford, CT, www.gartner.com) The largest information technology consulting firm that specializes in research and analysis. Founded in 1979 by Gideon Gartner, it has grown through acquisitions, including Dataquest in 1995 and Techrepublic in 2000. Dataquest (Dataquest Inc., San Jose, CA, www.dataquest.com) A major market research and analysis firm in the information field. Dataquest offers market intelligence on more than 25 topics and provides conferences, annual subscriptions and custom research. show shipments down 1.9 per cent on 2000. The decline is largely due to the ailing American market, where sales dropped by 6.1 per cent, from 11.4 million to 10.7 million units. The US accounts for nearly 40 per cent of the world's PC market. Initial estimates for Western Europe Western Europe The countries of western Europe, especially those that are allied with the United States and Canada in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (established 1949 and usually known as NATO). indicate a similar drop. Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) all showed a sharp fall in sales. Analysts expect the decline to continue at least until Christmas. |
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