Fast Forward
Will the PC shipments cross the one-million mark?: Currently, all PC shipments, including servers, stand at 620,000 numbers. One million PCs would mean a 61 percent growth in numbers. While…
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Toward More Fuel Flow
The oil and power segment spending for the year was above Rs 250 crore. IT investments continued into this segment in the form of large-scale infrastructure upgradation and systems integration…
Waiting For The Reprieve
The workstations and server market perfor-mance in 1997-98 was influenced by reduced user demand levels and increasing preference for Intel-based systems over RISC systems. With corporate users finding price-performance benefits…
More Ground For Proliferation
The government segment’s IT spending dur-ing the year exceeded Rs 600 crore. This includes the spending by the central government departments, ministries, directorates, and state governments. The government sector has…
Always On A Platter, Eh?
The slump in the main sectors of the indus-try did not effect a slowdown in the growth of the services sector. The services segment is very cost-sensitive and profit-sensitive and…
Genuine Money Spinners
HCL tried, and failed. Compaq tried…failed. Zenith tried…did not succeed. The big names and the big bucks could finally never really capture this segment. The small users and the home…