Seemingly out of nowhere they produced companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Compaq and Dell.
Compaq and Dell aren't the only PC makers to be hit by a recall because of faulty components this year.
Then Digital and Data General were wiped out by the likes of Compaq, Dell and Microsoft in pcs and Sun Microsystems in Unix servers.
It is a niche player, with an anomalous operating system, trying to survive in a market dominated by giant corporations like Compaq, Dell and IBM.
That puts Sun behind IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Compaq and Dell.
Nearly all the funds either own, or have owned the usual suspects--Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq and Dell--it's what else they buy that makes the difference.
Having seen their profit margins squeezed mercilessly, some of America's biggest suppliers of personal computers, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway and Hewlett Packard, have expanded into the fast-growing hosting business.
In addition, IBM announced that in May it will start supplying in volume two new 20G-byte and 30G-byte Travelstar hard drives to major notebook vendors, including Compaq, Dell, Gateway and the IBM Personal Systems Group.
Compaq, using Dell-inspired quick inventory turns, still manages to eke out a profit in PCs.
At first they also pushed their own private-label brand PCs before realizing they couldn't match the resources of a Compaq or a Dell.
It is already running Teradataon lower-priced servers such as those from Dell or Compaq.
And minicomputer vendors like Digital in turn dismissed the personal computer revolution spearheaded by Dell, Compaq and Hewlett Packard.
PCs got cheaper, so Dell and Compaq sold more PCs and became successful.
"Big corporations buy from companies like Dell, Compaq, HP, and IBM, " Dukker says.
Buy recommendations on Dell, Compaq, Microsoft and AOL all provided 10x returns.
Analysts now talk about a pincer movement, of Sun's being caught between IBM above and Wintel (Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Compaq, etc.) below.
Wall Street has already passed judgment on this, lopping half a trillion dollars in market value from eight giants the past year (Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Intel and AMD).
Wall Street already has passed judgment on this threat, lopping off half a trillion dollars in market value from eight giants in the past year (Apple, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Intel and AMD).
Homes and offices were filling up with personal computers sold by the likes of Dell or Compaq, with CPUs from Intel, running on Windows 95 and later iterations of the dominant operating system from of Microsoft, and connected to the Internet with networking equipment from Cisco Systems.
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Just think of an old Compaq desktop compared with the latest Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook.
Malaysia is also a large PC-maker -- with large players like Dell, Gateway and Compaq all having plants there.
Several large computer makers, including Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Dell, have already said they will sell their own versions of the appliance.
The key will be increasing the speed of bringing new products to market, an area where Dell has been clobbering Compaq for years.
Compaq's attempts to embrace Dell's direct-from-the-web model have appeared half-hearted.
In addition to the about 14, 000 people attending the show -- a record, according to Microsoft -- there are about 300 vendors hawking their wares on the exhibit floor, including Compaq, Computer Associates International, Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
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The six big producers of network servers -- IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Digital and Dell -- have caught on to the advantages, and Quantum is struggling to meet their demand.
The acquisition was not so much for Compaq's PC business-- Dell Computer 's (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) relentless cost-cutting model has taken out most of its competitors' profits there--but in the hope of building a consulting business, particularly in managed services, that could complement HP's highly profitable printing business.
For example, the Compaq machine took 15 seconds longer than the Dell PC to complete the PowerPoint test.
And, in its lower-end Intel-based server market, Compaq is facing stiffer competition, not least from Dell.
Dell was competing with companies such as Compaq that sold PCs through retailers.
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