No dude, more sales for Dell
crn.com | at | by Mike
The demise of the dude hasn't hurt Dell. Despite the retirement of its hip pitchman, Dell recaptured the top spot from Hewlett-Packard as the world's largest computer maker, according to numbers released by two research firms.
Dell accounted for 17.3% of global PC shipments during the first quarter of 2003, market research firm IDC said, compared with HP's 15.8%. The next three in the top five--IBM, Fujitsu, and Toshiba-- were far behind, with just 5.4%, 4.8%, and 3.7% market share, respectively.
Dell, which has swapped the top spot with HP for the last five quarters, benefited from timing. "Besides the fact that Dell's on a roll," said Roger Kay, director of IDC's Client Computing group, "the first quarter is a more commercially-oriented quarter. Dell tends to be a more commercially oriented company."