A survey of 100 Fortune 1000 companies shows that their major suppliers IBM, DEC, Wang and Hewlett Packard are not meeting their Personal Computer connectivity needs. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester Research reports that the user rating has dropped by an average of 7% in comparison with survey data gathered in January 1986. Forrester attributes this to […]
A survey of 100 Fortune 1000 companies shows that their major suppliers IBM, DEC, Wang and Hewlett Packard are not meeting their Personal Computer connectivity needs. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester Research reports that the user rating has dropped by an average of 7% in comparison with survey data gathered in January 1986. Forrester attributes this to the ‘slow embrace’ of Personals as intelligent nodes in the network. Novell, 3Com and Banyan, it says, are more in tune with users’ networking and connectivity needs and are pinching business from the big boys. Users are therefore changing their preferred suppliers list from the old guard to the start-ups. Forrester reckons that the rise of local area network vendors, coupled with the arrival of the IBM 9370 processors will cause a shake-out among the minicomputer vendors. The survey predicts that growth in the Personal Computer market will slow by 50%, indicating that large corporations are already saturated with the boxes. More information can be found in the Professional Automation Report and Bulletin, a $800 a year service offered by Forrester Research.
