IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Tracker enables users to better understand the dynamics of the rapidly changing workstation market. It provides clients with a quantitative measure of the market and how particular vendors are performing within the space. Through pivot table data and in-depth analysis, users can quickly get answers to important product planning and positioning questions.

This product covers the following segments of the workstation market:

• Regional data: United States, Western Europe, CEE, MEA, Asia/Pacific, Japan, and the rest of the world (ROW)
• Vendors broken down by product families and server models
• Operating systems: Linux, Unix, and Windows
• CPU types: x86-32 and x86-64
• Form factors: Desk based, mobile
• Core count, core per die, die per module, module per socket, socket capability

Workstation revenue includes components that are typically sold today as a bundle, including processors, memory, communication boards, monitors, and operating systems.

Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics

• Top personal workstation (PWS) vendors
• Primary application
• Sales channel
• Workstation price band
• Workstation market sizing, forecasting, and competitive analysis by different segments of the workstation market (TWS and PWS)
• Time frame covered: Quarterly data starting from 1Q02

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

1. In which application segments are vendors strong?
2. How do vendors' channel strategies differ?
3. How is the market adopting new mobile workstations?
4. How are the traditional and personal workstation markets growing relative to one another?
5. How is customer investment in workstations changing?
6. Which vendors are gaining share in this rapidly evolving market?
7. How are technology transitions being adopted in the workstation space?
8. Which platforms are winning in this market?

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Workstation Tracker is an essential tool for tracking competitors in the workstation space. These companies include Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, NEC, and Sun.

Clients receive quarterly delivery and IDC support, including:

• Quarterly data files delivered seven weeks after the end of each calendar quarter via pivot table

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.