Compaq Romania attains 15.5% market share

Compaq Computer Romania on Wednesday announced Q3 results and the successful design and implementation in Romania of the first integral solution of the “Disaster Tolerance” class for GSM mobile telephony operator Mobil Rom

Compaq reported a 5,900-unit increase in Q3 sales for all the products available in Romania as compared to the year-ago period. Compaq attained a 15.5% market share on overall products, while the company ranking second posted a 10.1% market share and the third company registered 9.7% market share.

“Compaq has an edge over the second-ranking company for all system categories, with a plus of 54% for all the types, 28% in the desktop sector, 85% in the mobile computer sector and 40% in the server field,” Mihai Pascadi, country general manager with Compaq Romania said.

“We have increased market share for all the product categories. On the whole, Compaq posted double growth as compared to domestic market growth in three categories out of four.”

Market share reached 14% in the sector of desktop systems, against 11% and 10% for the other competitors, while Q3 growth stood at some 4,800 systems more than over the year-ago period.

On the mobile computer market, Q3 growth stood at 700 units against the year-ago period, while Compaq market share in this sector reached 30%, against the 16% posted by the second-ranking competitor.

Compaq Romania market share in the server sector reached 27%, against 19% for the second ranked competitor, while Q3 sales rose by 380 units against the third quarter of 2000.

The DT solution backs the billing infrastructure of GSM mobile telephony operator MobilRom and uses Alpha technology for servers, StorageWorks for data storage solutions and OpenVMS (data transfer and/or replication).

Compaq this May won the tender for the billing system MobilRom is to use soon, while the system was implemented at the end of August.

“The billing system and the storage solutions are currently undergoing the final tests,” said Dragos Carare, EGB product manager with Compaq Computer Romania.

According to Carare, the project is worth more than two million dollars if the stages in the previous years are included.

“The back-up solution already has a storage capacity higher than the total data in all MobilRom centres,” Carare said.