The US server market continued to show signs of recovery with a 12.2 percent increase in the third quarter of 2002, while the worldwide market share grew by 3.1 percent, according to preliminary statistics by Dataquest. Apple showed a 273% market growth over the third quarter of 2001 with a total of 5,700 units shippped in the US. (The Xserve began shipping early in the quarter.) Apple was No. 4 in the US server market with 1.2 percent marketshare behind Dell (26.3%), HP (25.9%), IBM (11.7%), and Sun (6.9%).

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The best-selling author was in the Headline News studio this year to promote his latest book. Being a big fan of his thrillers, I introduced myself as he was leaving. I told him I was a technology anchor.

“What kind of computer do you have at home?” he asked.

“Well, I have a Sony Vaio.”

Judging from the look on his face, you’d have thought I had said that his fictional hero, Jack Ryan, was a liberal wimp.

“You gotta get a Mac,” he said, just before he whipped out his cell phone and called in an airstrike on my apartment.

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