Subject: Market share

From: [email-masked] (Steve Lindsey)
Date: 17 May 1994 14:34:41 GMT

A couple of days ago, someone asked about market share (units and $).  Hope this
answers their questions.

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                           MARKET METRICS

Subject: 	1993 Workstation Market Data
Date: 		March 28, 1994
Source:		IDC
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Top 5 Worldwide Workstation/Workstation Server Vendors,
Worldwide Shipments of All Vendors, Calender 1993 (Units)

Rank	Vendor		Units	  Share	    U.S.-    Share
				   (%)	     Only     (%)

1	Sun		238,299	  37.8	   121,460   42.3	 
2	HP		123,250	  19.6	    51,735   18.0 
3	DEC		 70,050	  11.1	    31,110   10.8	  
4	IBM		 46,200	   7.3	    18,586    6.5		
5	SGI		 37,760	   6.0	    20,545    7.2

	Total		629,935	 100.0	   287.086  100.0
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Top 5 Worldwide Workstation/Workstation Server Vendors,
Installed Base of All Vendors, Calender 1993 (Units)

Rank	Vendor		 Units	  Share	   U.S.-     Share
				   (%)	     Only     (%)

1	Sun		924.033   37.0	   483,782   41.2	 
2	HP		504,965   20.2	   232,425   19.8	 
3	DEC		371,183   14.9	   173,110   14.7 
4	IBM		131,305    5.3	    58,238    5.0	
5	SGI		109,834    4.4	    61,750    5.3

	Total	      2,497,130  100.0	 1,173,634  100.0
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Top 5 Worldwide Workstation/Workstation Server Vendors,
Equipment-only Revenue of All Vendors, Calender 1993 ($M)

Rank	Vendor		Rev 	Share	U.S.-	Share
			($M)	(%)	only	 (%)

1	Sun		3,818.4	 33.4	1,816.9	 39.8
2	HP		2,200.5	 20.9	  919.3	 20.2
3	SGI		1,004.8	  9.5	  546.7	 12.0
4	IBM		  981.1	  9.3	  397.2	  8.7 		
5	DEC		  977.9	  9.3	  477.7	  9.8

	Total	       10,534.5	100.0	4,561.4	100.0
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Worldwide Personal Workstation Unit Shipments, All Vendors, 1993

Vendor			Units	% Share

Sun			38,272	 47.5
NT/Pentium		32,000	 39.7
NeXT Computer		 4,700	  5.8
DEC			 2,500	  3.1
Acer America		 1,800	  2.2
Others			 1,255	  1.6

Total			80,527	100.0
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Worldwide Power Desktop Unit Shipments, All Vendors, 1993

Vendor			Units	% Share

Sun			222,251	 37.3
HP			118,600	 19.9
DEC			 66,840	 11.2
IBM			 38,970	  6.5
SGI			 37,255	  6.3
Others			111,272	 18.7

Total			595,188	100.0
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Worldwide Workstation Unit Shipments by Architecture, 1993

Vendor			Units	% Share

RISC			535,725	 85.0
MC680x0		 	 35,245	  5.6
Intel 80x86 + Pentium	 32,845	  5.2
Proprietary (non-RISC)	 26,120	  4.1

Total			629,935	100.0
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Worldwide RISC Workstation Unit Shipments by Type of RISC, 1993

Vendor			Units	% Share

SPARC			260,022	 48.5
PA-RISC			105.525	 19.7
MIPS			 79,670	 14.9
POWER/PowerPC		 46,662	  8.7
Alpha			 28.105	  5.2
Clipper			 11,250	  2.1
Other			  4,491	  0.8

Total			535,725	100.0
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SOURCE: IDC March 1994

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