The idea is that they will make money on hardware sales and consulting fees.

Such growth would lead to total hardware sales of about $40 billion.

In last year's third quarter, hardware sales were $9.2 billion.

In each of these areas, he said, Compaq will supplement hardware sales with services.

Remember they can only get about $10 per license, no hardware sales to pull in the bucks.

The partners then turned to network integration which led to increased hardware sales.

The first version of the system software that I later worked on was given away to support hardware sales.

A first step must be to restrict any military hardware sales to defensive weapons.

Most companies had a business model based on hardware sales, and provided or bundled the software free of charge.

Over all, hardware sales fell 11 percent in the fourth quarter, to $10.2 billion.