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Re: NEC Takes Standard Linux, PC's Reach a Barrier, Cost Matters (Digest)

  • Subject: Re: NEC Takes Standard Linux, PC's Reach a Barrier, Cost Matters (Digest)
  • From: "billwg" <billwg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 14 Aug 2006 11:52:53 -0700
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "Some say that everyone who's going to buy a PC has bought a PC," Rosen
> | said, excluding the market niche for $100 PCs in developing nations. "So
> | the tremendous growth curve is over. Companies might be on a
> | three-year replacement cycle, but it's not clear that the typical home
> | user is going to be on that schedule. Unless the machine breaks, it will
> | work fine as his Web browser."
> `----
>
Wow!  Is that the same Rosen who is "president of the IBM user group
SHARE, and chief information officer of the National Institute of
Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases"?  Sounds like a bright
young man with a great future! Not.

It's common for a pseudo sage like Rosen to equate a PC to something
like a TV set and then find some horror in the fact that the product
market is mature, but that does not mean the end of the world to the
product suppliers.  It may mean the closing of any window of
opportunity for any new entrant into the market, but it merely signals
the end of the beginning and the beginning of the mature,
cash-generating phase of a product life cycle.  Rosen should drag his
aching bones and splotchy hide to some decent B-school site and read up
on what's for dinner.   LOL!!!

Rosen seems to be at sixes and sevens, too, first vowing that "a
customer buying a PC in 2006 must be certain that a new computer is
ready to run Microsoft's often-delayed Vista OS and that it holds the
latest processor, as Intel Corp. has accelerated its upgrade patterns
from the leisurely progression from the 8088 (used in IBM's PC XT in
1983) and 80286 (used in the PC AT in 1984), to the modern rush from
486 to Pentium to Core 2 Duo" and then concluding that it is not
necessary, noting "unless the machine breaks, it will work fine as his
Web browser."  Perhaps they just caught Rosen in one of his senior
moments.


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