It is hardly the "Internet Appliance" that I would have expected from EFII.
These are my personal comments, Roee, not the comments of YARC.
This announcement caught me a little cold, and I maybe I will understand more after I look over it in detail next week at Comdex.
Just days after Cobalt had that brilliant IPO based on some loose concepts of "Linux" and "customized servers" a company that should be thinking about servers instead thinks about white boards. Now, I have used plenty of whiteboards in my time, but I usually was happy when my scrawlings were erased from them, for good.
I remember one afternoon, in Tokyo, however, scrawling up a delivery schedule for a YARC product on a whiteboard in Roland DG's offices. Imagine my surprise when a button was pushed and 2 printed copies came out. One each for YARC and Roland. Each were then signed by each CEO. That was the contract! Whew! I am not sure that I am 100% comfortable every time I look at that messy document in our filing cabinets!!
And that is the problem I see with this product. Most presentations are now done with PowerPoint and a computer projector. Certainly I would not expect to "attend" an Internet "Conference Call" where the presentation was being performed on a white board. I would have thought detailed slides to be preferable. Still, I am not fully familiar with the market segment that EFII is attacking, and I am sure that they have done some market research. At least I HOPE they have done some Market Research!
I will check it out at Comdex and let you know if I got anything seriously wrong.
Sincerely,
Trevor (himself).
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