Turns out that Dataquest decided there was nothing interesting to say about the 1992 mid-range market, or about supercomputers, so did not put out any announcement of its findings (CI No 2,080) – but a phone call yielded its tables for the two sectors.The mid-range figures show that IBM Corp continued to build the AS/400 […]
Turns out that Dataquest decided there was nothing interesting to say about the 1992 mid-range market, or about supercomputers, so did not put out any announcement of its findings (CI No 2,080) – but a phone call yielded its tables for the two sectors.The mid-range figures show that IBM Corp continued to build the AS/400 base and Digital Equipment Corp was a predictable loser of market share, while Hewlett-Packard Co achieved fairly modest growth.
1992 1991 Company Factory 1992 1991 Rank Rank $m Share (%) Share (%) 1 1 IBM 5,950 24.3 20.7 2 2 DEC 3,300 13.5 14.0 3 3 Hewlett 2,200 9.1 7.6 4 4 Fujitsu 1,400 5.5 7.0 5 5 NEC 1,300 5.1 5.8 Others 10,350 42.2 44.9 Total 24,500
In supercomputers, Dataquest quixotically classifies Teradata Corp’s back-end parallel database engines as supercomputers, and the figures don’t tell us much – Cray Reserach Inc is of course top of the tree with $590m sales, 30.8% of a $2,000m market as defined by Dataquest. NCR Corp is quirkily second as a result of the Teradata acquisition with 14.9% for its $280m sales; IBM and its Vectors saw their share dip to 11.5% from 13.4% with $220m.
