Report on the public sector market for PCs.

Report on the public sector market for PCs. A report issued in September September:see month. by technology market research companyIDC found that, "Despite a remarkable sequential increase inshipments, the market for PCs in the U.S. public sector is showing signsof weakness." Although there is still double-digit dou��ble-dig��itadj.Being between 10 and 99 percent: double-digit inflation.growth, that rate is slightlybelow the rates of the past two years. The IDC report found that Dell,Apple and Gateway improved their shares of the U.S. public sectormarket, with Dell maintaining its overall leadership. Apple has donewell in the K-12 market with its iBook and has now regained its top spotin the overall education portable PC market. In the education market, IDC notes, "Although the K-12 andhigher education higher educationStudy beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. markets had similar performances on the sequentialbasis, the K-12 segment showed a weaker performance on a year-on-yearbasis." This is attributed to the fact that tuition For tuition fees in the United Kingdom, see .Tuition means instruction, teaching or a fee charged for educational instruction especially at a formal institution of learning or by a private tutor usually in the form of one-to-one tuition. and fee increases areup, as are enrollments in postsecondary education, which helps "thehigher education sector withstand the sort of financial crisis facingits K-12 counterpart counterpartn. in the law of contracts, a written paper which is one of several documents which constitute a contract, such as a written offer and a written acceptance. ." For more information, visit www.idc.com.