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- + Gartner Group PC Industry Conference Summary
- + Apple Session
- - Very positive toward Apple
- - Technical and product innovation and leadership continues
- - Apple Macintosh is the “Universal Client”
- - “DEC shops should be Mac shops”; Macintosh is the best desktop device for
- VAX environments, and DEC should admit it instead of trying to be too
- all-inclusive by including VT terminals, etc.
- - Key challenge for Apple: demonstrate meaningful and continued advantage
- - Management must stabilize, particularly AUSA organization; challenges are
- not as much technical as market positioning, execution and management.
- + Migration from System 6.0.X to System 7.0 is not a slam-dunk.
- - Don’t underestimate the pain of migration to system 7.0 for large
- companies.
- - Concern that initial release will not be as stable and compatible as we
- say it will.
- - Concern about loading System 7.0 on all hard drives.
- - Recommend careful, isolated testing before full implementation.
- + Facilities Session
- - For most users, facilities represent the key strategic software decision
- of 1990s.
- - Key battleground for vendors, but most vendors’ offerings are immature.
- - Apple’s facilities strategy is the most fully formed, “... perhaps making
- Apple the preferred desktop device in multivendor companies.” GG sees us as
- having a 2 to 3 year lead over other vendors.
- + Client/Server Session
- - Client/server is here now, is not just futures
- - The desktop will be the key point of integration. Desktop developments
- will continue to drive the development of client/server architectures in short
- term (2-3 years).
- + User interface is the key and is at the center of success in client/server
- implementation
- - Must hide the complexity from the user with good interface
- - Makes IS’s job much harder; hiding the complexity increases IS’s support
- burden
- - Requires redeployment of resources (particularly support) to desktop
- + Windows Session
- - They confused Windows 3.0: Saw it as a new operating system, not a shell
- over DOS.
- - Said that Windows 3.0 is a migration path from DOS to OS/2, not a
- destination for most large enterprises.
- + Windows is both threat and opportunity.
- - Key threat, often overlooked, is to mindshare of Independent Software
- Vendors.
- - Opportunity is in the churn of the DOS world and our “Universal Client”
- position.
- + Vendors’ Strategies Session
- - IBM won’t control the desktop, particularly if MS sells OS/2 EE (which
- they think will happen in the next year)
- - Apple and Compaq have viable futures, given product roadmaps
- - An undercurrent of Microsoft bashing/backlash in this and other sessions;
- they seemed to be offended by Microsoft’s attempts to achieve “global
- domination” of the pc industry.
- + PC Penetration Session
- + We are in a DOS migration market
- - All businesses need to actively retire 808X pcs; “give them to schools or
- something”
- - To get to Windows/OS/2 usage in the rates they recommend, need very high
- retirement rates for existing low-end hardware
- - GG believes that there may not be a “1 deskworker, 1 pc limit”; also,
- need to consider pcs for selected blue collar and non-deskworker applications.
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