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To: seth thomas who wrote (54)	11/24/1997 11:19:00 PM
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ottawacitizen.com In 1996, worldwide shipments of network computers and other scaled-down computing devices totalled 258,106 units, according to figures compiled by Zona Research Inc., a computer industry market research firm based in California. Factory revenues were $429.8 million U.S. But the commercial market for NCs will hit 6.7 million units in 2000 from 1.7 million units this year, forecasts Zona analyst Greg Blatnick. The total market for consumer NCs will "explode" to more than 70 million units in 2000 from two million units in 1997, he says. In a small survey of corporate buyers that Zona did last month, however, only 15 per cent said they planned to deploy NCs or similar machines. Although they won't openly admit it, many NC producers are also positioning their wares as the product of choice for companies preparing to replace an estimated 30 million to 40 million "dumb"(text-only) computer terminals by 2002.

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