Sentence examples for computer vendor from inspiring English sources

Both research firms said the Compaq Computer Corporation remained the top personal computer vendor in unit terms but posted the slowest growth of the top four companies.

Indeed, during the past three years, Microsoft's new chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, has frequently sketched for reporters the company's strategy for attacking Sun Microsystems, the leading Unix computer vendor.

All of these product groups -- current packages, upgrades, bundles, licensee packages and out-of-date software -- turned up in a recent search using "voice" at a major online computer vendor.

The survey shows that Legend Holdings Ltd. of China has overtaken the International Business Machines Corporation as the top computer vendor in the region, where consumers bought 4.1 million computers in the latest quarter, up 26percentt from the corresponding period last year.

Most computer users will be familiar with Dell, the third-largest computer vendor in the world behind HP and Lenovo, but fewer will know EMC, a company with a large legacy business in packaging, selling and making software for computer storage systems.

United States Steel said it would buy Stelco of Canada for about $1.1 billion; the Swiss engineering company ABB said it would sell its oil and gas production plant to Chicago Bridge & Iron for $950 million; and the Taiwanese computer vendor Acer said it would acquire the computer maker Gateway for $710 million.

Fortunately, the major computer vendors are hungry for your business.

Like other personal computer vendors, I.B.M. is having trouble in the desktop market.

Computer vendors like Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, I.B.M., Fujitsu-Siemens and NEC will begin selling servers that use the new Xeon chips, which run at so-called clock speeds of 1.8 to 2.2 gigahertz, as early as this week, Intel said.

On Tuesday, a group of Linux organizations will announce the creation of the Gnome Foundation, which will have the support of I.B.M., Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and several other major computer vendors.

By the time the transition is complete, computer users will also be able to choose from Itanium-based offerings from numerous other computer vendors, including I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard, which had a head start because it was co-developer with Intel of Itanium.