Fujitsu Siemens Computers reports strong half-year progress in UK

- Mobility and Business Critical Computing focus results in impressive notebook PC and server sales growth

Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European vendor of secure Business Critical Computing and Mobility solutions, has reported strong performance from its UK operation during the first half of its financial year. Thanks to significant growth from the company's server and notebook system sales, the company has reported FY2002 half-year revenues of some £84 million, up over 29 per cent against the same April-September FY2001 half-year period. These figures reflect Fujitsu Siemens Computers' continued progress in the UK, and follow IDC's recent UK analysis (August 2002) that showed Fujitsu Siemens Computers growing ahead of the market - particularly in the Notebook PC and Intel-based server sectors.
 
For its FY2002 half-year, Fujitsu Siemens Computers reported major growth in its server business, with revenues from its PRIMERGY Intel-based systems and PRIMEPOWER and BS2000/OSD data centre platforms up over 70 per cent compared to the same period last year. At the same time, sales of the company's LIFEBOOK notebook PCs grew 79 per cent, backed by a 38 per cent rise from enterprise storage and a 20 per cent growth in professional services.
 
"We've made strong progress during the first half of our financial year, and it's now clear that our focus on Mobility and Business Critical Computing has given us a strong differentiation both among our SME channel customers and increasingly with larger enterprise organisations," commented Dave Cullinane, Managing Director for Fujitsu Siemens Computers in the UK and Ireland. "During the first half of our financial year we've continued to develop our UK channel business, while also establishing our PRIMERGY and PRIMEPOWER ranges as one of the market's strongest enterprise portfolios. We're obviously delighted with our first half performance, particularly given overall market conditions across the UK.
 
"This week at our major OCTOBERFESTival exhibition we're highlighting some of the new technologies that I believe will help us to maintain this progress," continued Dave Cullinane. "In the Mobility area we're previewing our new Stylistic Tablet PC offering, and showing GPRS variants of our successful Pocket LOOX PDA. We're also raising the bar in the enterprise space, where our new PRIMEPOWER family with its Extended Architecture is currently setting new performance standards for SPARC/Solaris customers, and where we've also signed an important new partnership agreement with Amdahl. These and other developments clearly show that we're a serious player across the full IT spectrum, and that our major commercial and public sector customers now regard Fujitsu Siemens Computers as an increasingly credible alternative to more traditional enterprise IT providers."
 
About Fujitsu Siemens Computers:
Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the leading European computer company, offering unrivalled expertise in enterprise computing solutions with best-in-class Intel- and Unix-based servers, and enterprise storage solutions. The company is also one of the leading providers of professional PCs, notebooks and workstations to business customers, and is Europe's leading supplier of PCs for home users and small offices. Fujitsu Siemens Computers supports customers' growing demands for Business Critical Computing with extremely secure, scalable and always-on server infrastructures for current and future e-business environments, and Mobility solutions that deliver anytime access to Internet services and applications - independent of location and device.

 
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Marisa Reynolds
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers
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