Growth in the UK public sector software and IT services (S/ITS) market will be at least 30 times faster than any growth in the commercial sector to 2005, according to a new report by Ovum Holway, the leading UK S/ITS analyst. Ovum Holway forecasts the UK public sector S/ITS market will grow by an average of 9 percent per annum between 2001 and 2005 to reach GBP 7bn in 2006. In contrast, the UK commercial sector is expected to grow by an average of just 0.3% in the same period.
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