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Annual Report Card Awards 2005
Overall Ranks and Scores, 2003-2005

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Advanced Desktops and Workstations Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Lenovo (IBM) (IBM: '03 & '04) 1 70 1* 65 3 64
HP (includes Compaq) 2 63 1* 65 1* 68
Gateway 3 59 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Dell 4 57 3 57 4 58
Category Average 62 62 65
Client & Server Processors Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Intel 1 80 1 83 1 81
AMD 2 73 2 70 2 80
Category Average 77 77 80
Entry Level Servers Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
HP 1* 69 2 64 1 71
IBM 1* 69 1 67 2* 65
Sun 3 68 3 60 2* 65
Dell 4 58 4 53 4 59
Category Average 66 61 65
Midrange Servers Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
IBM i Series 1* 74 1 76 1 76
IBM p Series 1* 74 2 72 2 73
HP High-End ProLiant (x86) (all HP in 2003) 3 68 3 68 3 70
HP Unix / RISC 4 63 4 61 N/A N/A
Category Average 70 69 72
Mobile Computers Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Lenovo (IBM) (IBM: '03 & '04) 1 68 1* 65 1 67
HP 2 66 1* 65 2* 65
Toshiba 3 62 3* 58 2* 65
Gateway 4 60 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Dell 5 58 3* 58 4 57
Category Average 63 61 64
Networking Infrastructure: Data Networking (ranks included voice networking '01 to '04) Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
HP Procurve (HP in '03 and '04) 1 76 5 61 2* 69
Juniper 2 69 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Cisco 3 68 1 71 2* 69
Enterasys 4 65 4 67 4 68
3Com 5 63 2* 68 5 65
Nortel 6 61 2* 68 6 62
Netgear 7 59 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Category Average 66 67 67
Networking Infrastructure: Voice Networking (Voice Over IP) (new category in '05) Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Cisco 1 70 ** ** ** **
3Com 2 62 ** ** ** **
Nortel 3 60 ** ** ** **
Category Average 64 ** **
Business Class Wireless LANs Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Cisco 1 77 1 69 1 75
HP ProCurve (HP '04) 2 70 4* 62 N/A N/A
D-Link 3 65 3 65 2 70
Nortel 4 62 N/A N/A N/A N/A
NetGear 5 59 4* 62 4 67
Category Average 67 65 70
Security Appliances Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
SonicWall 1 73 1 76 ** **
WatchGuard 2 72 2 68 ** **
Cisco 3 71 N/A N/A ** **
Trend Micro 4 69 N/A N/A ** **
Check Point 5* 68 N/A N/A ** **
Symantec 5* 68 3 65 ** **
McAfee 7 63 N/A N/A ** **
Category Average 69 69 **
Server Operating Systems Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Novell Netware (all Novell: '01 to '03) 1 71 2 68 3 69
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (all Mcrsft: '01 to '04) 2 70 1 70 1 73
Microsoft Windows Small Biz Server 2003 3 67 N/A N/A N/A N/A
Novell SUSE 4 66 3 64 N/A N/A
SCO 5 65 5 53 4 68
Category Average 68 63 69
Data Management Software Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Microsoft 1 70 2 66 1 75
IBM 2 69 1 68 2 73
Oracle 3 65 4 50 3 63
Sybase 4 62 3 61 N/A N/A
Category Average 66 61 70
Enterprise Storage Management Software Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
IBM Tivoli 1 73 1 74 1 70
EMC 2* 63 3* 63 4 67
Veritas 2* 63 2 64 3 68
HP 4 60 3* 63 2 69
Category Average 64 65 68
Web Infrastructure and Integration Software (Web Apps & Tools in 2003) Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Microsoft 1 69 2 70 1 72
IBM 2 68 1 72 3 64
Oracle 3 62 3 56 5 59
BEA 4 52 4 53 4 60
Category Average 63 63 65
Security Management Software Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Cisco 1* 70 1* 72 N/A N/A
Trend Micro 1* 70 3 68 N/A N/A
Checkpoint 3 69 6 62 2 67
McAfee (Network Associates in '03 to '04) 4 64 5 63 3 64
Symantec 5 62 4 64 1 68
Computer Associates 6 58 1* 71 4 63
Category Average 65 67 66
Business Software (new category introduced in '05) Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Oracle 1 64 ** ** ** **
Microsoft Business Solutions 2* 61 ** ** ** **
Business Objects 2* 61 ** ** ** **
Category Average 62 ** **
Enterprise Disk Drives Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Seagate 1* 70 2 71 1* 74
Maxtor 1* 70 1 72 1* 74
Fujitsu 3 63 4 59 3 73
Category Average 68 65 74
Network Storage Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
HP 1 71 4 62 4 65
IBM 2 68 1 71 1 71
Hitachi 3 67 2 65 3 67
EMC 4 65 3 63 2 70
Category Average 68 65 67
Display Technology Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Samsung 1 85 1 84 1 85
NEC Display Solutions (NEC/Mitsubishi '01 to '04)) 2 75 2 75 2* 74
Viewsonic 3 73 3 66 2* 74
Sony 4 60 4 60 7 58
Category Average 73 72 71
Network Color Laser Printers Rank 2005 Overall Score 2005 Rank 2004 Overall Score 2004 Rank 2003 Overall Score 2003
Xerox 1 75 1 75 1 72
HP 2 70 4 63 4 66
Okidata 3 68 2 67 N/A N/A
Lexmark 4 65 5 59 3 67
Category Average 70 66 68

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