larry, most the pc's by 2000 will be y2k compliant.
but, the fix on a pc is simple....so, we aren't worried about the pc. and there will be allot of old pc's in 2000 that are doing great jobs on windows2000. even a 286 will have a place.
Thin client will have evloved to where you can take a citrix like software and make a 286,386,486 run windows 95,win98, and win2000.
Now thin client like now will still be for transaction task, data collection task....not the knowledge worker that is bouncing into allot of apps.
So, this thin client software would keep us from buying pcs.
BUT, the lagacy systems have to go to an industrial strength relational database that is distributed to client in many cases.
THIS REQUIRES US TO RETOOL ALL THE PCS. AND THE PCS WE REPLACE GO TO
OTHER TRANSACTION PLACES TO DO LOWER LEVEL APPS.
the hardware we are concenred about are telephone systems, systems embedded in factory and other hardware and in factory automation hardware. |
