Computer Industry Report articles from December 1993

Computer Industry Report archives from December 1993

TP systems and software: surprising growth despite smaller platforms and increased competition. (transaction processing) (Industry Overview)
December 17, 1993... With worldwide systems suppliers desperate for growth in languishing systems markets, attention quickly becomes focused on market segments that show almost any level of expansion or potential for expansion. The markets for transaction processing...

The transaction processing systems and software markets: five-year outlook. (Industry Overview)
December 17, 1993... The worldwide market for transaction processing systems is growing faster (or dropping more slowly) than the market for worldwide multiuser systems. Between 1987 and 1992, the total multiuser systems market grew at a compound annual rate of 4.2%;...

TP monitor supplier profiles. (transaction processing software industry)
December 17, 1993... The TP monitor software market is not the largest component of the worldwide market for transaction processing technologies, but it is one of the most influential. Precisely because TP monitor technologies are crucial intermediaries between...

General business dynamics and the impact on TP. (transaction processing systems)
December 17, 1993... In at least two important ways, general business and IT market dynamics are becoming tied together. First, as IT technologies spread into every corner of organizations, business evolution and IT evolution become inextricably linked, and changes...

U.S. surges, Europe stagnates, Japan slumps; U.S. suppliers strong; Japanese and European suppliers struggle. (computer industry) (Industry Overview)
December 31, 1993... The continued strength of the U.S. IT market in 1993 and that of U.S.-based IT suppliers were the most striking developments in the worldwide IT industry over the 12 months of 1993. Europe has remained mired in recession for much of the year, and...

The multimedia house: home market bursts open with new devices in 1993. (Industry Overview)
December 31, 1993... That more technology is used in more homes than ever before is chiefly the result of more people working at home and the development of home entertainment/PC products that are driving a new category of growth. These two developments combined to...

Worldwide PC hardware: the rich get richer. (Industry Overview)
December 31, 1993... After several years filled with stories touting the upstarts transforming the PC industry, 1993 proved to be a year dominated by the feats and follies of the veterans. And on balance, it proved to be a notable year for the established powers of...

Windows NT released to fanfare, derision, and greatly exaggerated rumors. (computer software)
December 31, 1993... Some of the most interesting stories of the year revolved around Microsoft (see also "Suites," p. 10). The jury is still out on the second-most-awaited product of 1993 (after Newton), Microsoft's Windows NT, but that hasn't slowed the steady...

Apple in the doldrums: Newton down, Sculley out. (Apple Computer Inc.'s executive officer John Sculley)
December 31, 1993... On paper Apple didn't have a bad enough 1993, and the departure of CEO Sculley is not news enough, to warrant mention in our top ten; on Wall Street it's a different story. At first glance it might appear that Apple's common stock is the first...

Bottoming out at IBM: Gerstner's IBM takes shape. (Louis Gerstner, Jr.)
December 31, 1993... For IBM in 1993 no news was good news. This is hardly surprising from a company that made headlines by losing $7.8 billion during 1991 and 1992. That 1993 will likely see a return to profitability (or perhaps at least losses measured only in the...

Hewlett-Packard: $20 billion and growing.
December 31, 1993... Hewlett-Packard's emergence as the clear #2 U.S.-based computer company has resulted from a heads-down, no-nonsense approach to the business. This ascension is among the most unheralded success stories of the past year. In fact, when HP's PC...

Unix databases continue strong growth; Oracle leads the charge. (computer software)
December 31, 1993... The relational database market was one of the year's big success stories, growing by 28% to $1.4 billion in 1993. Combined, the major database suppliers grew by approximately 40%. That these companies are well positioned for future growth with...

Suites: taking PC application price wars to a new level. (computer software)
December 31, 1993... The introduction of software suite packages during 1993 by the major application suppliers has been significant: Microsoft's Office 4.0, Lotus's SmartSuite 2.1, and Borland's Office (QuattroPro and WordPerfect for Windows) made their debut. In...

Information highways - today and tomorrow.
December 31, 1993... No single event of the past year garnered more attention than the incipient construction of the information highway. During that same period no single industry product or service experienced more grassroots, raw demand than the Internet. The...