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10 March 2003
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CIO survey: Dell winning PC enterprise market share
Dell Computer Corp. continues to increase its share of companies' PC spending "hand over fist," according to a survey of chief information officers (CIOs) from the U.S. and Europe conducted by the research department of investment bank Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
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Of the 100 respondents, 78 said Dell is winning share of their companies' PC spending, which makes Dell "the runaway winner" over Hewlett-Packard Co., which is winning share from the companies of 44 respondents and IBM Corp., which got the nod from the companies of 42 respondents, according to Merrill Lynch, which released the survey results in a report Tuesday.
Dell again came out on top when CIOs were asked which vendor is winning share of their companies' PC server spending. Dell is winning PC server spending from 78 respondents' companies, followed by IBM (64) and HP (56), according to the report.
On the enterprise systems side, 54 CIOs said Dell is becoming more important in their enterprise spending, and only 26 said they are concerned that Dell doesn't have the services and research-and-development capabilities of IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems Inc.
On the PC operating system side, the survey found that 25 of the respondents' companies have upgraded to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP. Of the 75 whose companies haven't made the upgrade, 28 plan to do so this year.
Sixty-two of the respondents said the Windows XP upgrade has been or will be accompanied by PC upgrades, the survey found.
Merrill Lynch also rated as "disturbing" that one-third of respondents said they have no plans to adopt Itanium until at least after 2005. Only six said they plan to buy Itanium 2 servers this year, a figure expected to rise to 32 in 2004. On a scale of 1 to 10, the average interest in buying Itanium 2 servers was 4.9.
Regarding Linux, 36 respondents said their companies are currently running Linux on servers, while the average interest among respondents for running Linux on the desktop is weaker, at 2.8.
Reaction to HP's Compaq acquisition came out as "evenly mixed" which is an improvement from previous surveys, Merrill Lynch said, adding, however, that "we don't yet see a company gaining share across the board."
Finally, an overwhelming majority of respondents said the specter of war with Iraq hasn't affected negatively their IT spending in the first quarter, but "reactions could be more negative if war breaks out," New York-based Merrill Lynch said in its report.
Of the 100 CIOs surveyed, 75 work in the U.S. and 25 in Europe.
Reference: www.itworld.com
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