IBM SEES TROUBLE FOR SUNW, EMC, MSFT
12/12/00 10:28 am
IBM's Gerstner Sees Trouble for Sun, EMC, Microsoft Models
New York, Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp. and EMC Corp. sell proprietary computing systems that can't survive in a world of billions of connected devices, International Business Machines Corp. Chairman Louis Gerstner said.
In a speech prepared for the eBusiness Conference and Expo in New York, Gerstner said these technology giants -- all IBM competitors -- are facing an ``inexorable'' move to open-computing standards driven by the Internet. His main point was that their market leadership has been built on closed systems, and the marketplace now demands easy connectivity.
The world's largest computer maker is convinced, Gerstner said, that the rapid growth of small computing devices of all varieties, and all connected by the Web, will favor standards allowing every device to talk to every other device. So, he said, IBM will invest nearly $1 billion next year to develop the freely available Linux computer operating system.
and to think Dell's push for open standards was being ballyhooed by some on the Street as not important. now we have Gerstner saying the same thing...Linux and C+ are the programming standards of choice by wireless operators as well for programming 3g...although Linux is used on the egineering floors for testing purposes, they still must build the wireless based ASICs to speak to windows/Nt |
