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IDC reported that fourth-quarter factory revenue declined 14% in the worldwide server market on a year-over-year basis. All of the top five server vendors saw declines in their quarterly and annual server revenue, the first time since the first quarter of 2002. The research firm said that IBM, which held onto its number 1 spot in the worldwide server systems market with a 36.3% market share in factory revenue, recorded a 15% decline in its revenue to $4.9 billion. Although IBM experienced significant weakness in System x, demand for its power-based systems improved in the quarter. HP, which maintained the number 2 spot with a revenue market share of 29%, reported fourth-quarter factory revenues of $3.91 billion, a 10.1% decline from last year. According to IDC, HP was helped by a relatively strong October during its fiscal year end. Dell posted quarterly factory revenues of $1.42 billion, down 9.9% from $1.58 billion in the prior-year quarter. Dell maintained third place with a factory revenue market share of 10.6%. Sun Microsystems’ fourth-quarter factory revenue was $1.25 billion, a decline of 14.1% from $1.46 billion in the same quarter last year. Sun’s factory revenue market share was 9.3% for the quarter.

June 2004 saw yet another record year being set by ICC turnover and profit was increased by a further 28% and we also saw an increase in stock and client portfolios. 2003-2004 saw I.C.C move into new premises which we believe was a major factor to our continued growth and also the continued push into the service sector seems to be paying dividends. Over the next year we look forward to introducing IBM to our product range which will open the door for our services and products into new market areas