> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If the day-to-day task is getting from A-to-B I'm not sure how you > could do it faster, more comfortably, or more fun :) But, to each > his own. >
My day-to-day tasks aren't getting from A-to-B. I can't think of a single part of my I could do from a Mac that wouldn't involve having to use parallels or remote desktop. > Well, that's not fully true with Xserve and one could argue that, like > the airlines, the MS business model is quickly on it's way out. To > borrow from SUN, if the computer is the network, then the value-add of > a PC is zero; in fact negative. XServe isn't Enterprise, its hardware. Enterprise is the software. It is a single socket 1U server, it couldn't begin to handle enterprise caliber applications like R/3 or PeopleSoft. Apple doesn't target the high end business consumer. > One might theorize that business drove the rise of PC1.0, but the > consumer will drive PC2.0, and right now that's looking like "rich" > content: movies, sounds, etc. If your typical enterprise apps (email, > Word, Excel) move to the web, and thus become platform independent, > Microsoft is screwed and they know it. Word, Excel and office applications aren't Enterprise Applications, you don't spend 10 Million dollars to bring up word at your business. Exchange is an Enterprise Application, SAP is an Enterprise Application. I'm talking about the tools that actually make the business run. > Unfortunately they've never been a disruptor or an innovator. They've > relied on their capital to buy them out of their problems - but right > now Google and Apple have "the Big Mo". What has Google and Apple have that comes anywhere close to the features and capabilities of Exchange or SQL Server? > E.g., take any new development in your average enterprise. Is it > designed to run as a client on a PC or is it designed for the web. > 90% of the time, the web. So if most apps run on the web, and Word, > PP, and Excel move to the web, why do you need PCs? You don't. So > what is Microsoft doing about that? Nothing that's working thus far. For the most part the high end application run as a Client on a PC, because stateless connections and the general latency contained in the web cause problems with the user experience. Many of them operate in both environments. > So, you could argue that by focusing on the consumer market Apple is > focusing on the future of the Enterprise. I don't even thing Apple knows what the Enterprise market looks like let alone what the future is. > Prediction: It will sell better than the iPod, it's service model will > be an industry disruptor, and Apple will become a major power in the > cell phone market. $600 is too much for a phone. I don't think Apple has thought this through enough, the battery life is going to kill the thing, the closed model is going to hurt it. SmartPhone batteries are already bad, I have never been able to get more than three days on any device, add an iPod and people using it constantly and it will be even worse. > And the cell phone market has 2 billion users vs., say, television, > which has 1 billion. If Apple can control even a portion of that > market if will be larger than all television outlets combined. > > It's iTunes model promises to do that if they can port it to video > content. That then opens the door for targeted demographic specific > ads, which would make Apple THE go-to company to advertise ANYTHING. > > The iPhone is rumored to integrate with Leopard and AppleTV - in fact > run a miniversion of Leopard. That sounds like a platform strategy to > me. This is exactly my point, Apple doesn't target the Enterprise Customer, how does me watching TV on my phone and getting ads help me do my job? SmartPhones are designed to help people work, Apple has one to help people play. Most of these phones are purchased by the company and given to the employee, which would one do you think most companies would be more interested with? One that works with their email system, VPN, and Authorization framework, or one that lets the employee watch TV? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228538 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
