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Each month CAD
SPAGHETTI
provides market intelligence from our database of nearly 20,000 UK
CAD/CAM user sites. This database contains in-depth information for
each record covering some 150 separate data items.
This month we
have analysed current data from 17,500 CAD/CAM user sites, and compared
it with 1997 data from 10,500 sites to examine the use of PC and
workstation brands. In both cases the samples were selected to provide
a representative sample of the total UK CAD/CAM market.
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PC
Brands
The table below
shows a breakdown of sites using PCs by brand in December 1997 and
December 2001. Dell and Gateway show the most significant increases
in the percentage of sites using their PCs over the four years.
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Brand |
% of
sites using this brand in Dec 1997
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% of
sites using this brand in Dec 2001
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Dell
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11%
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20%
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Compaq
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11%
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11%
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Gateway
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3%
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9%
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HP
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6%
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8%
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IBM
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7%
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4%
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RM
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5%
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3%
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Intergraph
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1%
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2%
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others*
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51%
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59%
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Base
10,495 |
Base
17,562 |
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A further seven
brands are being used at approximately 1% of sites. Percentage sums
exceed 100 as some sites use multiple PC brands.
*Nearly six
out of ten sites are now using 'others', these are either minor
brands that are used at less than 1% of sites or unbranded machines
otherwise referred to as 'clones'.
The use of Dell
PCs increases with site size; 32% of sites with more than 5,000
staff use their PCs, compared to 16% of sites with less than 50
staff.
Workstation
Brands
The chart below
shows a breakdown of sites using workstations by brand in December
1997 and December 2001.
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*'Others' are
brands that are used at less than 1% of sites or unbranded machines
otherwise referred to as 'clones'.
There has been
little change in the proportions of sites using the major workstation
brands in the last four years. The proportion of 'other' sites using
unbranded workstations, or brands that individually are used at
less than 1% of sites, has increased by 10%.
The percentage
of sites using SUN workstations increases steadily according to
site size; they are used at 15% of workstation using sites with
less than 10 staff, compared to 56% of sites with more than 5,000
staff. A quarter of the very small sites are using Silicon Graphics
workstations, the highest percentage amongst this segment of smaller
end-users.
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The
above data comes from research on the UK CAD/CAM user community.
If you would like to target specific decision makers in a particular
sector, or want to find out more about this database and the accompanying
services, please take the following links:
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