IT News: CL buys PBP; Comp Rzeszow wins BP contract; 2002 Computer sales

Computerland (CL) has taken over PB Polsoft (PBP) for zl. 37.7 million to increase its involvement in services for the finance and banking sector. However, PB Polsoft will continue to operate on the market as a separate company. Computerland also announced that it has already pre-signed contracts totalling zl. 130 million for 2003 ... Comp Rzeszow, signed a contract, worth zl. 40 million to design and roll out the central operating system at Bank Pocztowy ... A total of 312,000 computers, notebooks and servers were sold by the five largest domestic IT manufacturers in 2002. The market leader is HP (with Compaq), which sold 85,000 computers, followed by JTT (73,000 computers sold) and NTT (72,000 computers sold). The only drop in sales was recorded by Optimus which sold 47,000 computers, 30.88% down y-o-y, and is now the fourth company on the market (from second in 2001). The domestic computer market is estimated at zl. 850 million to zl. 900 million, comprising mostly of relatively cheap computers assembled by small companies. (IT News is C/O Polish Market Review e-Poland No. 83, www.polishmarket.com)