Tandem Computers Inc forecasts its turnover to grow by over 24% to $2,000m this year despite the widespread turndown in the industry, the company told Reuters: the company looks for the new top-end Cyclone machine to account for half its sales volume by the end of next year, and sees the market coming from users that want to make all their data accessible to their desktop machines and can’t afford to have the system go down – and the Cyclone is half the price of a standard mainframe; the company blames its relative slowdown in Europe, which accounts for 25% of its total, to the fact that it concentrated perhaps too much on winning new accounts last year – this year it hopes to upgrade all its existing users here.
