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Ideas International is the leading provider of competitive
product and pricing data to information technology (IT) vendors and purchasers
worldwide. The company derives 97 per cent of its revenue from outside
Australia, selling its data to all of the top ten U.S. vendors of computer
systems and storage equipment, among other clients. IDEAS research covers
comparative information on computer systems, workstations, desktop PCs,
notebooks, storage devices, service and warranty information and cost of
ownership. Its knowledge base contains details on more than 500,000 system
components spanning more than 30 currencies, researched over 15 years. The
company has offices in Sydney, PortChester(NY, USA) and Oxfordshire (England).
In January of 2004, Ideas International acquired D.H. Brown Associates, Inc, a
privately held USA based research and advisory firm specializing in analyzing
hardware and applications used for building enterprise-wide IT infrastructures.
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Flash
Memory vs. Hard Disk Drives - Which Will Win? - article by Semico Research
There's
a confusing picture in many consumer products like phones, cameras and music
players in which one day it seems that the storage function is done by flash
and next day another company announces they're doing the same thing with
miniature hard disks.
Is there any sense to this seemingly random
choice?
This article uses pricing trends, technology trends and
unique market analysis insights to show that users and oems may be able to
reliably predict which storage devices will be most cost effective depending
where you are on the future history curve. ...read the article,
...Semico Research profile,
Hard disk drives,
Flash Memory,
Market research,
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