Gateway 2000 overtakes Apple in education sales

Gateway 2000 is claiming this week that they have overtaken Apple Computeras the number one seller of desktop and portable personal computers to theU.S. education market. The company is citing numbers from ComputerIntelligence, a market research company. In a statement, Gateway 2000 saidit controlled 22.4% of the education market in the second quarter and 18.7%for the first half of 1997.

Apple Computer, however, disagrees.

"We have lost some ground," said Jacob Kandathil, Apple's director ofmarketing and sales development for education. "But our market sharecertainly hasn't flip-flopped like these numbers say."Unfortunately, the only proof Apple can offer is supplied by DataQuest,whose figures are generally scoffed at by the market research community.DataQuest reports that Apple still maintains 28% of the education market,compared to only 4.9% for Gateway 2000