Mary,
What I was originally intending to convey when I replied to your post was that there are a lot of new software companies that are writing enterprise software for the wintel environment. I work at one of those startup software companies, I am in engineering. We have no intention of porting out product to anything but one or 2 flavors of unix, and NT. Presumably, any customers that buy these new products will have that choice to make... wintel or unix. For those that choose wintel, and imo most of them will, that will be brand new business for intel where they have never existed before. This is a very lucrative market and great for intel.
Some examples of these new enterprise software companies are: ariba (www.ariba.com), extensity (www.extensity.com), elekom (www.elekom.com) and commerce one (www.commerce-one.com). My company is too small to have a web page.
My guess is most of the people that buy the products from these new companies will buy the intel enterprise platform - merced and NT 5.0, or whatever. If otoh your company is worried about certification, too many heterogeneous platforms, etc. well then maybe you won't want to buy one of these products, and thats fine. I really don't see what this has to do with the "mainframes going away" argument.
Michelle |
