Asian small businesses to buy $9.1 bln worth of PCs in 2005

According to IDC SMBs in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) will invest around $10 bln on PCs and servers in 2005. Of this $9.1 bln will be on PCs and slightly over $800 mln on servers. IDC expects SMBs to gradually increase their contribution rate to the region's overall expenditure on PCs and servers from 28% in 2004 to 31% in 2008.