Uncertainty over HPQ clouds workstation market

The workstation market declined five per cent during the first quarter of this year, making it one of the hardest hit segments in the IT spending slowdown. Uncertainty surrounding the HPaQ merger and negative sentiment about Intel's Itanium also contributed in weak spending, Gartner analysts note. Gartner Dataquest reports a preliminary figure for workstation shipments of 358,829 in Q1 2002, down 5.4 per cent on the 379,296 shipments recorded in Q1 2001. Dell extended its lead as the top vendor in worldwide workstation shipments, as its market share grew to 37.5 percent. IBM was the only other top-tier vendor in 2001 to experience an increase in shipments from the previous year, according to Gartner Dataquest.

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