Hmmm, So Who's Gonna Fall on Their Sword?

By Maureen O'Gara	Article Rating:
January 1, 2000 12:00 AM EST	Reads:	13,497

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Bear Stearns came up with a list of 10 predictions for the new year and clearly the most provocation of the bunch was number nine - that the "CEO of a major enterprise hardware company is likely to leave during 2003." We imagine they must be thinking of either HP CEO Carly Fiorina or Sun CEO Scott McNealy because they can't mean IBM CEO Sam Palmisano or Dell CEO Michael Dell, and who else is there? The broker's other predictions pretty much call for more of the same dismal same: no increase in IT spending until the second half; leaders continue to pull ahead; price pressures remain intense - and get worse in storage and components; Dell and HP go for each other's throats; Intel's Itanium continues to sputter (because of the complexities involved in getting apps on the thing); and stocks' return to "normal" seasonality? - to wit - a January rally, followed by a weak spring and a bottom around mid-year.? For its part, Merrill Lynch observes that the current US IT spend is "17% below trend." That trend, by the way, is the last 22 years.

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Jim 01/02/04 10:19:35 AM EST

I don't think Steve Jobs is likely to resign anytime soon. He worked too hard to regain control of Apple to want to quit, and with the push into the enterprise just beginning, Apple has a few years to go before it is one of the big three in that market. With clearly superior hardware, and realistic licensing, (One license, as many users as can log in.), Apple and Linux will be the two OS's working to erode Microsoft Share. The truth of this is in Microsoft's increasing concern about Apple, so they are dropping support for Office on the Mac.

Now if Microsoft decided to split, an OS company and an Application company, then watch out world. You would see Office for Linux, Mac and anything else they could dream up.
The Microsoft OS would be cleaned up and pared down to be a really screaming OS to compete with what is out there, rather than trying to build all applications into the OS.

	Fred Grott 12/20/02 09:57:00 PM EST
	How about Apple's CEO? I mean with their xServer and web objects they are alos inthe enterprise business..are they not?

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