Dell Secures Share of Number One Position in Worldwide Personal Workstation Market; Also Rises to Number Two Position in Combined Market of UNIX and NT Systems.ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 1999--Dell Computer Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DELL), the world's leading direct computer systems company, today announced that it has claimed a share of the lead in the personal workstation Same as personal computer or workstation. market, entering into a "virtual tie" with Hewlett-Packard Company, according to preliminary estimates by International Data Corporation (IDC)(1). IDC's year-end analysis showed that Dell grew from zero personal workstation market share at the beginning of 1997 to a leading position by year-end 1998. Personal workstations leverage the Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) operating system and Intel(R) processors rather than proprietary operating systems and processors. Dell also secured the number two position in total worldwide workstation shipments, which includes systems based on both UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT operating systems(1). Competitors in this market include Sun Microsystems, 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) , Compaq and Silicon Grapive price points have embraced the Dell Precisid performance needs of workstation users." tially more than the industry average of 36 per-aided design (CAD), geographic information systems (GIS), digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. (DCC (1) (Direct Cable Connection) A Windows 95/98 feature that allows PCs to be cabled together for data transfer. DCC actually sets up a network connection between the two machines. ), computer animation, software development and financial analysis markets. Dell Pvailable. All of Dell's workstation produckStation 610, based on the Intel Pentium II Xeoe 500 companies and No. 363 in the Fortune Globzes products and services to customer requiremeld Wide Web site at http://www.dell.com. (1) IDC Bulletin, "The Workstation Market, 1998: The Year in Revihe Time Inc. Magazine Company. |
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