The HP/Compaq merger. By the Numbers

September 7, 2001 12:00 PM ET

The HP/Compaq merger. By The Numbers:

HIGH-END

High-end Unix Servers: Worldwide (2000)

	Factory Revenues ($m)	Market Share
Hewlett-Packard	512	11.4%
Compaq	134	3.0%

Closest Rival: Sun Microsystems with factory revenues of $2.1 billion and a 47.1% market share

High-end Unix servers: US (2000)

	Factory Revenues ($m)	Market Share
Hewlett-Packard	124	6.1%
Compaq	66	3.3%

Closest Rival: Sun Microsystems with factory revenues of $1.2 billion and a 60.1% market share

Observation: Both HP and Compaq grew market share and factory revenues dramatically compared to 1999. Compaq sales were based on sales of the company's new GS320 servers.

MID-RANGE

Mid-range Unix servers: Worldwide (2000)

	Factory Revenues ($m)	Market Share
Hewlett-Packard	3,673	30.3%
Compaq	488	4.0%

Closest Rival: Sun Microsystems with $2.8 billion in factory revenue and a 23.5% market share

Mid-range Unix servers: US (2000)

	Factory Revenues ($m)	Market Share
Hewlett-Packard	1552	28.2%
Compaq	296	5.4%

Market Leader: Sun Microsystems with revenues of $1.7 billion and a 30.5% market share)

PERSONAL COMPUTERS

PC Shipments: Worldwide (in thousands of units)

	Hewlett- Packard	Compaq
Units (q2/01)	2,065	3,590
Share (q2/01)	6.9%	12.1%
Units (q2/00)	2,260	4.011
Share(q2/00)	7.4%	13.2%
Growth	-8.6%	-10.5%

PC Shipments: US(in thousands of units)

	Hewlett- Packard	Compaq
Units (q2/01)	991	1,332
Share (q2/01)	9.4%	12.7%
Units (q2/00)	1,221	2,293
Share(q2/00)	10.7%	20.1%
Growth	-18.8%	--21.3%

Market leader: Dell Computer Corp. with a 24% market share and a 9.8% growth in the same period.

LAPTOPS/NOTEBOOKS

SMART HANDHELDS

Worldwide shipments of portable computers (thousands of units)

	Hewlett- Packard	Compaq
Units(q4/00)	318	817
Share(q4/00)	4.5%	11.6%
Units(q4/99)	139	739
Share(q4/99)	2.4%	13.%
Growth	129.2%	10.4%

Market leader: IBM with 932,000 units and a 13.3% market share

	Shipments (in 000s)	Share 2000	Rank
Hewlett-Packard	254	3.8%	4
Compaq	129	1.9%	9

Market Leader: Palm with a 52.9% market share and 3.53 million units.

Source: IDC.

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