[geeks] Re: [rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 11:31, Mike Dombrowski wrote:
> 
> >> The article said that the combined company would almost be as big as
> >> IBM.  Anybody know how close either company is by itself?  I always
> >> thought Compaq was second, next to IBM.  I have heard that Acer is
> >> third, but that is probably only PCs.
> >
> >Dell is probably second to IBM, only if you count everything that IBM
> >makes.  There are a few lines of IBM equipment that Dell doesn't 
> compete
> >for.  :-)  I know that Dell Laptops and Desktops outsell everyone else
> >on the market, and that Compaq was number 1 until Dell beat them.  Not
> >sure how servers factor into this.  IBM hasn't held the sales crown 
> for
> >PC manufacture for a long time.  Can anybody say 'PCjr'?
> 
> IBM is tops by far now. 90billion vs 50 for HP and 47 for Compaq. Dell 
> is at 33.

is that 90billion dollars in sales?  Does this count their mainframes? 
Dell sells more notebook and desktop computers than any other x86
manufacturer out there, according to figures that I've gotten.  I'll
admit that they might be skewed, but they came with numbers of their
sales vs the sales of compaq and ibm.  Give us some context so that we
know what you're saying.
	Greg