IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Forecast service greatly enhances clients' ability to respond quickly and effectively to today's dynamic workstation market. Clients are provided with a foundation of market and technology assumptions to understand the factors that drive marketplace expectations. Understanding the direction in which global markets and segments are growing and assessing the quarterly adoption curve for new products have become business-critical needs, not only for workstation vendors but also for supply chain partners and the Wall Street financial community. This service provides insight into customer trends by delivering geography-specific detail across all workstation segments, and it presents market data in an easy-to-use, interactive format that allows any submarket to be viewed in a customizable layout. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Forecast service provides reliable, independent market research data as a base for quantitative market and trend analyses.

This product covers the following segments of the workstation market:

• Regions: United States, Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe/Middle East/Africa, Asia/Pacific, Japan, and rest of world (ROW)
• Countries: Country information is available through our regional Tracker products
• Operating systems: Linux, Unix, Windows, NetWare, and other
• CPU type: x86-32 and x86-64
• Segments measurement: Factory revenue

Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics:

• Workstation class: Personal workstation (PWS)
• Form factor: Desktop, mobile
• Price band
• Workstation applications: DCC, scientific, engineering, economic/financial, other commercial, software engineering
• Time frame covered: Quarterly data through 4Q09; annual data through 2012

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. How is the workstation market expected to grow over the next eight quarters and five years?
2. What market segments are expected to hold the largest promise?
3. What applications/workloads will grow the fastest?
4. How will technology transitions be adopted by the market?
5. How will pricing impact revenue growth in the different market segments?

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Forecast service allows clients to leverage IDC's expertise to better position themselves in the quickly evolving market for infrastructure hardware. By anticipating technology trends in the market and providing clients with up-to-date quarterly projections for changes and sizing of the workstation market, IDC is delivering one of the most powerful tactical tools that enables clients to plan for the future.

Clients receive quarterly delivery and IDC support, including:

• Quarterly data files are delivered nine weeks after the end of each calendar-year quarter via pivot table.
• With the purchase of IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Forecast service, clients receive detailed insights and inquiry time for supporting questions regarding data usages.

As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.

Our steady growth over the past 10-plus years reflects our commitment to investing in our customers.