Computer Industry Report articles from April 1992

Computer Industry Report archives from April 1992

Digital Equipment Corporation's divergent paths. (strategies to cope with competition in computer industry)
April 17, 1992... Like other systems companies, Digital Equipment Corporation is under the gun to adapt to the new competitive standards implied by computer industry dis-integration. Since the traditional vertically-integrated VAX hardware/software/services...

Digital as a microprocessor and systems manufacturing company. (Digital Equipment Corp.)
April 17, 1992... Digital's reputation for rock-solid design and engineering capabilities has grown over almost three decades. Its track record at building and at getting those products to end users hasn't been quite as stellar. Remember the Rainbow, the...

A user-eye view of the VAX/VMS base: strategies and intentions. (survey of computer end-users)
April 17, 1992... Transitioning Digital's base of VAX/VMS users to Alpha-based products will be anything but easy, according to IDC's recent survey of U.S. users (see the Gray Sheet 27;8, 2/28/92). The survey of 1,600 end users highlights the following facts...

Digital as a disk drive manufacturing company. (Digital Equipment Corp.)
April 17, 1992... Digital's disk drive manufacturing operation has generally been very highly regarded within the industry. The company produced high quality, high capacity, but proprietary, drives. As a result, Digital was somewhat sheltered from the rapid...

Digital as a customer solutions and services company. (Digital Equipment Corp.)
April 17, 1992... With close $6 billion in services revenue last year, Digital ranks among the largest worldwide services companies. Its maintenance business (about $3.5 billion in 1991) is growing slowly. Its other service businesses (about $2.3 billion in...

Digital's lost opportunity: the RISC flip-flop. (Digital Equipment Corp.'s wavering focus on development of reduced-instruction-set-computer chips)
April 17, 1992... Was last month's acquisition of MIPS Computer by Silicon Graphics the last chapter in the story of RLSC at Digital? Unless Alpha becomes a huge hit (with lots of OEM customers and great success in PC markets), it may not be. Several years...

The industry slowdown goes global: worldwide IT markets 1991 and 1992. (computer industry; information technology) (Industry Overview)
April 30, 1992... The winter of discontent will in all likelihood be followed by another spring, summer, and autumn of thwarted hopes for many IT vendors, especially if they depend on hardware revenue. * The overall 5.5% worldwide growth anticipated for 1992...

The Mark Twain Principle goes global. (overprojection of trends)
April 30, 1992... Back in the mid-1980s during what we were calling the Great Softness, the Gray Sheet announced the Mark Twain Principle. In Chapter 16 of Life on the Mississippi, Twain mused that, over 176 years of recorded measurements, the Mississippi River...