Re: Midrange Predictions

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:54 PM 1/3/97 EDT, Booth Martin wrote:
> Bill Gates will finally have enough money for that new pony he wants.
>
> Windows '97 and Office '97 will be announced and delivered.  Sales will be 
>brisk.  Few will notice the slight deterioration in performance. Corel will 
>continue selling strongly.
>
> IBM will announce, again, its committment to OS/2. Responses will be 
>"They are protesting too much."  and  "No one uses OS/2 anymore."
> 
> More large companies will announce loudly that they are moving "up" to 
>NT.  Novell will be sold, Netscape will flounder, and perhaps become part 
>of Apple, with Steve Jobs.
>
> AS/400 unit sales will increase.  A few NT installations will quietly 
>install AS/400s to "reinforce" their data capabilities.
>
>VisualAge RPG will gain a foothold, if it can be made to work with Win95.  
>
>Large-scale deployments of thin client workstations will be started 
>with some major organizations.
>
>Version 4 will have some major breakthroughs in connectivity, GUI, and in 
>date handling.  ASCII will be understood by the AS/400.
>
>Now, there's some wild guesses.  <G>
>
>On Thu, 02 Jan 1997 11:22:41 -0400, 
>Chris Rehm  <crehm@ibm.net> wrote:
>
>>Hey, anybody care to make a few predictions about what we will see
>>happening in '97?
>
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John Earl       Lighthouse Software Inc.
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