Who Will Buy a Network Computer?

January 1997 / International Bits / Who Will Buy a Network Computer?

Rainer Mauth
Almost 10 million network computers (NCs) will be sold worldwide during the year 2000, the management consultancy Datamonitor (London) forecasts. This figure includes o nly dedicated NCs, not devices with limited Internet access, such as game consoles.
Of these 10 million units, a little under two-thirds will be sold to the corporate and government markets, and a little under one-third to the consumer market. However, the consumer market is expected to grow rapidly. Educational establishments will make up the remaining small portion. But the NC market will still be dwarfed by PC statistics: Datamonitor says that the NC market volume in 2000 will constitute only 2.5 percent of the global PC market.

Global NC Market Volumes
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Corporations and governments are projected to buy 6,500,000 network computers in the year 2000.

NC Market Volume by Region
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