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Annual Report Card Overall Ranks and Scores: 2003 to 2006
Advanced Desktops and Workstations	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
IBM	1	70	N/A	N/A	1 *	65	3	64
HP	2	69	2	63	1 *	65	1 *	68
Gateway	3 *	65	3	59	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lenovo (IBM '01 to '04)	3 *	65	1	70	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Category Average		67		62		62		65

Client & Server Processors	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Intel	1	82	1	80	1	83	1	81
AMD	2	73	2	73	2	70	2	80
Category Average		78		77		77		80

Entry-Level Servers	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
HP	1	72	1 *	69	2	64	1	71
IBM	2	70	1 *	69	1	67	2 *	65
Sun	3	65	3	68	3	60	2 *	65
Category Average		69		66		61		65

Midrange Servers	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
HP High-end HP ProLiant	1	79	3	68	3	68	3	70
IBM System I (i5/iseries)	2	77	1 *	74	1	76	1	76
IBM System P (p5/pseries)	3	76	1 *	74	2	72	2	73
"HP 9000, Integrity, Alpha (HP Unix/RISC 2004-2005)"	4 *	70	4	63	4	61	N/A	N/A
Sun	4 *	70	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	4	68
Category Average		74		70		69		72

Mobile Computers	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
HP	1 *	73	2	66	1 *	65	2 *	65
Toshiba	1 *	73	3	62	3 *	58	2 *	65
Gateway	3	69	4	60	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lenovo (IBM in '03 and '04)	4	67	1	68	1 *	65	1	67
Category Average		71		63		61		64

Data Networking	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Cisco	1	81	3	68	1	71	2 *	69
HP ProCurve (HP '03 - '04)	2	76	1	76	5	61	2 *	69
Enterasys	3	74	4	65	4	67	4	68
Alcatel	4	73	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	70
Linksys	5	69	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NETGEAR	6	66	7	59	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
3Com	7	64	5	63	2 *	68	5	65
Juniper	8	62	2	69	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Category Average		71		66		67		67

Voice Over IP/Voice Communications	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Cisco	1	76	1	70	**	**	**	**
Alcatel	2	68	N/A	N/A	**	**	**	**
3Com	3	62	2	62	**	**	**	**
Avaya	4	57	N/A	N/A	**	**	**	**
Category Average		66		64		**		**

Business Class Wireless LANs	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Cisco	1	76	1	77	1	69	1	75
Linksys	2	74	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HP ProCurve (HP in '04)	3	73	2	70	4 *	62	N/A	N/A
D-Link	4	69	3	65	3	65	2	70
NETGEAR	5	66	5	59	4 *	62	4	67
3Com	6	65	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Category Average		70		67		65		70

Security Appliances	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
SonicWALL	1	82	1	73	1	76	**	**
Cisco	2	79	3	71	N/A	N/A	**	**
Juniper	3	73	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	**	**
Trend Micro	4	72	4	69	N/A	N/A	**	**
Watchguard	5	71	2	72	2	68	**	**
Check Point	6	69	5 *	68	N/A	N/A	**	**
Symantec	7	66	5 *	68	3	65	**	**
McAfee	8	62	7	63	N/A	N/A	**	**
Category Average		72		69		69		**

Server Operating Systems	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Novell Open Enterprise Server (Netware in '05)	1	75	1	71	2	68	3	69
Novell SUSE	2	72	4	66	3	64	N/A	N/A
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (all Mcrsft: '01 to '04)	3	71	2	70	1	70	1	73
Microsoft Windows Small Biz Server 2003	4	69	3	67	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
SCO	5	65	5	65	5	53	4	68
Category Average		70		68		63		69

Data and Information Management Software	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
IBM	1	73	2	69	1	68	2	73
Microsoft	2	69	1	70	2	66	1	75
Sybase	3	66	4	62	3	61	N/A	N/A
Oracle	4	63	3	65	4	50	3	63
Category Average		68		66		61		70

Storage Management Software	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
IBM Tivoli	1 *	74	1	73	1	74	1	70
HP	1 *	74	4	60	3 *	63	2	69
Symantec (Veritas in '05)	3 *	67	2 *	63	2	64	3	68
EMC	3 *	67	2 *	63	3 *	63	4	67
Computer Associates	5	66	N/A	N/A	5	62	5	65
Category Average		70		64		65		68

Infrastructure and Integration Software	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
IBM	1	74	2	68	1	72	3	64
Microsoft	2	72	1	69	2	70	1	72
BEA	3	71	4	52	4	53	4	60
Oracle	4	68	3	62	3	56	5	59
Category Average		71		63		63		65

Security Software	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Cisco	1	76	1 *	70	1 *	72	N/A	N/A
Trend Micro	2	75	1 *	70	3	68	N/A	N/A
McAfee	3	69	4	64	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Juniper	4 *	68	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Check Point	4 *	68	3	69	6	62	2	67
Symantec	6	66	5	62	4	64	1	68
Computer Associates	7	63	6	58	1 *	71	4	63
Category Average		69		65		67		66

Business Software	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Microsoft Business Solutions	1	71	2 *	61	**	**	**	**
Oracle	2	69	1	64	**	**	**	**
Business Objects	3 *	61	2 *	61	**	**	**	**
Hyperion	3 *	61	N/A	N/A	**	**	**	**
Category Average		66		62		**		**

Enterprise Disk Drives	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Western Digital	1	75	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Seagate	2	74	1 *	70	2	71	1 *	74
Fujitsu	3	72	3	63	4	59	3	73
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies	4	64	N/A	N/A	3	60	N/A	N/A
Category Average		71		68		65		74

Network Storage	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Network Appliance	1	76	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
HP	2	74	1	71	4	62	4	65
IBM	3	70	2	68	1	71	1	71
Hitachi Data Systems	4	68	3	67	2	65	3	67
EMC	5	66	4	65	3	63	2	70
Sun	6	62	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5	62
Category Average		69		68		65		67

Display Technology	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Samsung	1	78	1	85	1	84	1	85
NEC Display Solutions (NEC/Mitsubishi '01 to '04)	2	74	2	75	2	75	2 *	74
ViewSonic	3	71	3	73	3	66	2 *	74
Sony	4	61	4	60	4	60	7	58
Category Average		71		73		72		71

Network Color Printers	Rank 2006	Overall Score 2006	Rank 2005	Overall Score 2005	Rank 2004	Overall Score 2004	Rank 2003	Overall Score 2003
Ricoh	1	79	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Xerox	2	76	1	75	1	75	1	72
HP	3	75	2	70	4	63	4	66
Lexmark	4	73	4	65	5	59	3	67
Oki Data	5	71	3	68	2	67	N/A	N/A
Konica/ Minolta	6	66	N/A	N/A	3	66	2	69
Category Average		73		70		66		68


Total average (of ARC overall scores)		70		67		65		68


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Annual Report CardOverall Ranks and Scores: 2003 to 2006

Annual Report Card
Overall Ranks and Scores: 2003 to 2006