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In article <4drq9g$4l7@s-cwis.unomaha.edu>, issa@cwis.unomaha.edu (Issa
El-Hazin) wrote:

>These figures are for selected quarters. How about for a whole year!
>
>Last time I checked, the industry's overall growth rate is around 25%, 
>I beleive. If Apple only gained 20%, then they are losing market share.

 You believe wrong. The latest available numbers are for Q3/95:

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Source: International Data Corporation, Personal
Systems Group, Q4 1995.
 
Table 3 - Top 10 Worldwide Desktop PC Vendors,
Q3 1995 (Thousands of Units)
 
             Q3/95  %      Q3/94   %        Yr/Yr
Rank Vendor  Ship.  Share  Ship.   Share    Growth
 
1    Apple   1,123  9.5%   857     9.2%     31%
2    Compaq  1,050  8.9%   902     9.7%     16%
3    IBM       916  7.7%   839     9.0%      9%
4    Pack.
     Bell      802  6.8%   621     6.6%     29%
5    HP        501  4.2%   189     2.0%    165%
6    Dell      427  3.6%   286     3.1%     50%
7    NEC       402  3.4%   233     2.5%     72%
8    Acer      400  3.4%   296     3.2%     35%
9    Gateway   311  2.6%   228     2.4%     36%
10   Fujitsu
     /ICL      283  2.4%   110     1.2%    157%
 
     Total
     Market 11,831 100.0% 9,342  100.0%     27%
 
Shipments are branded shipments and exclude OEM sales
for all vendors.  Data for all vendors are reported
for calendar periods.

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As you can see, the market as a whole gained 27% but Apple gained *31%*.
That, of course, means they are *gaining* market share.

>The Mac is Number two in the Web server market according to Apple. 
>According to the exprts, Apple rankes 4th - behind Unix, NT, and 
>Windows 3.x/95. 

"Experts?" I'm not sure who your "experts" are, but according to the
Sept/95 WebCrawler survey of approx. 45,000 web servers, Macs were indeed
the #2 most popular server platform.

-- 
Don Andrachuk
DEA Systems