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Computers outsell hotcakes in the local market.
Experts pin most of that growth on the significant purchase of notebooks by the Education Department in fiscal year 2000. Once the purchases are finalized, the student to computer ratio will be six students per computer, a number that is half the ratio of the continental States. Rates of growth of the IT industry in P.R. are impressive. Last year's performance followed even greater growth the previous year. Puerto Rico one of the fastest growing markets south of the United States.