HP continues to gain workstation market share

In the U.S. personal workstation segment, HP grew twice the rate of the overall market sequentially by increasing 17.5 percent. HP recognized year-over-year growth in the same market with an increase of 24 percent, leading all other workstation vendors ranked by IDC. In Western Europe, HP continues to be the No. 1 workstation provider with sequential growth of 24 percent.

"HP has continued to grow in units shipped by focusing on delivering customers higher levels of workstation features and performance through innovation, global partnerships and excellent customer support," said Jim Zafarana, vice president and marketing manager, Workstation Global Business Unit, HP. "Customers are responding to HP's broad workstation line, which is evident by the growth HP has realized within the overall market and in the third quarter when HP was the biggest contributor in moving the industry forward."

"In the Middle East, we continue to capture market share in the workstations space," said Christoph Schell, General Manager, Personal Systems Group, HP Middle East. "HP recognized the most growth within the Intel® Pentium® 4 and Xeon™ based personal workstation segment by offering customers products, such as the HP Workstation xw4100, that provide innovative design capabilities at an affordable price."

HP increased units shipped across its entire workstation line, including the midrange HP Workstation xw6000 and high-performance HP Workstation xw8000, which provide customers an expandable, dual-processor system with enhanced visualization performance. HP's PA-RISC systems and its newest architecture Itanium® based systems grew in units shipped throughout the third quarter as well.

"The HP Workstation zx6000 based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor enables new modeling processes we did not think possible. The HP Workstation zx6000 allows us to do work the way we want, not fit our work process to what older technology enabled - splitting up models and filtering out components," said Mark Kurfman, design engineer for Red Bud Industries, a leading supplier of steel cutting and processing equipment. "The result is more timely communications for in-house manufacturing support, better sales effectiveness and the ability to streamline follow-on maintenance."

HP works closely with key software and hardware vendors to help ensure that its systems are high-performing, reliable and compatible with the tools needed by their customers. HP provides customers in the MCAD, DCC, finance and GIS markets a range of systems: PA-RISC, Pentium, Xeon and Itanium based workstations that deliver highly tuned application performance and system expandability to meet visualization, design and analysis needs.