Washington, May 02: Purchase of personal computers by companies worldwide has remained static at roughly 87 million pieces annually since 2000 as corporates now view computers as "too old" only after using them for four or five years instead of three years as earlier, a media report said today. Corporate belt-pinching has also contributed towards this phenomenon, said the report.
IBM's personal systems group general manager Peter Hortensius said, "They (companies) are being foolish because as PCs grow older, it is more expensive to support and repair them.” However, companies disagreed. They said five-year-old computers are working fine and they are saving money. Victor Salicetti, global information technology services director at Foster Wheeler Power Group, some of whose hardware is working fine after five years of use, said PC makers "are doing too good a job for their own good." Bureau Report