Frank Gillett
Frank Gillett
anyone equipment hardware painful
Anyone making hardware is in for a very painful transition. Equipment is going commodity.
chunk folks machines market people software stay sure until
An important chunk of Apple's market is people who use Adobe applications. Those folks are going to stay away from the new machines until they're sure their software works.
attractive effort growing interest linux offering relevant remain users
This is all part of Sun's effort to remain relevant by making Solaris more attractive to users and blunting the growing interest in Linux by offering their own open-source technology.
challenge individual number
The challenge here is not the individual products, but the interplay of a number of individual products.
model
The pay-for-use model is an innovation, but there is a very unflinching standardization.