The price wars that have left them bleeding and dying in the personal computer field this year are going to spread to the margin-rich personal computer server market, Computer Reseller News predicts: prices on RISC- and iAPX-86-based servers are expected to fall 20% to 25% this quarter, it says, as vendors respond to the low-priced […]
The price wars that have left them bleeding and dying in the personal computer field this year are going to spread to the margin-rich personal computer server market, Computer Reseller News predicts: prices on RISC- and iAPX-86-based servers are expected to fall 20% to 25% this quarter, it says, as vendors respond to the low-priced entries of the IBM Corp Server 85 XP486 and the trend-setting Compaq Computer Corp ProSignia; even high-end servers won’t be safe, it claims, but as a result, server sales, flat from 1991 to 1992, could grow 19%.
