Here's some more on a more positive view.
Philip Fersht, analyst at high-technology consultancy IDC, thinks not.
Fersht also believes that Compaq's problems are likely to be growing pains from its takeover
last year of Digital Equipment Corp, which he reckons will pay huge dividends.
''We see healthy growth in IT (information technology) as a whole, particularly in software.
World-wide this will continue and in 2000 we will see IT expenditure top one trillion dollars
globally for the first time,'' Fersht said.
IDC defines IT in five categories -- services, packaged software, basic communications, single
use systems -- like PCs, notebooks, laptops |
