U.S. PERSONAL COMPUTER MARKET SHARE.
The top five personal computer manufactures accounted for 48,1% of the PC market share, down slightly from 48.6% in 1995. Compaq retained the number one position with 11.7% followed by Packard-Bell (11.6%), Apple (11.5%), IBM (8.2%) and Gateway (5.1%). Dell, Acer and Hewlett-Packard all had significant market share gains in 1995. (Source: PC Week)

APPLE COMPUTER
Wall Street expects Apple to lose money in the fourth quarter of 1995 as a result of poor sales in Japan and lower profit margins on the machines sold in the United States. Traditionally, the fourth quarter has been Apple's most profitable. Apple is expected to announce staff reductions of 1,400 to 2,000 in 1996. Apple currently has a worldwide work force of 14,000. (Sources: Wall Street Journal, InfoWorld, PC Week).

In other news, MacIS has disbanded. MacIS was an organization serving the corporate information system manager. The MacIS board felt a need for a different type of organization to serve the corporate IS manager but didn't have the "...energy to start over." Apple has identified four markets to which it is committed: education, consumer & small business, science and desk top publishing. (Source: InfoWorld).

WEB SITE OF THE MONTH
Looking for something on the Web? If so, you may want to consider Digital Corporation's Alta Vista. Known as a Web search engine, it has over 16 million Web pages and 13,000 news groups included in its indexes. Alta Vista's address is: www.altavista.digital.com (Source: Newsweek). Sorry to say that I haven't had the time to try it--maybe by the next issue. If you have a favorite search engine let me know and I'll include it in a future issue.
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