Computer Industry Report articles from March 1992

Computer Industry Report archives from March 1992

EDS: more than just the right place and the right time. (EDS Corp., computer services company)
March 13, 1992... The view that software and services would someday outgrow almost every other segment of the worldwide computer industry has been getting progressively more axiomatic since 1969. That was the year IBM officially announced a "new way of doing...

U.S. IT vertical market trendlines, 1992. (information technology)
March 27, 1992... With all the bizarre coinages (picocomputers, palmtops, parallel processors) and acronyms (OOP, RAID, GUI), industry people often forget that the comparatively bland "vertical market" is also somewhat peculiar to the IT universe of discourse....

Focus: IT in banking. (information technology)
March 27, 1992... Historically one of the bedrocks of IS investment, the banking community has been beset with a numbing series of changes over the past couple of years. Major players in the economic expansion of the 1980s, banks are among the most visible...

Positive and negative U.S. IS spending attitudes by vertical market, 4Q1991 survey. (information systems; 4th quarter 1991) (Illustration)
March 27, 1992... NOTE: Positive attitudes are a total of the percentages responding to the choices "Our needs are growing rapidly, we continue to invest heavily in hardware, software, and services"; "We have about enough hardware horsepower, we now are...

Focus: IT in health services. (information technology)
March 27, 1992... The health of the U.S. health industry depends on who you are. If you are a consumer and/or voter, there is a growing perception of crisis. If you are a health professional, you are likely to be unhappy but making money. If you are an IS...

Why study vertical markets?
March 27, 1992... Why Study Vertical Markets? The acceleration of vendor interest in the vertical markets in which their customers operate is a function of a series of critical transitions in the information industry: * Low-growth ceilings. With...

Nine remaining vertical markets.
March 27, 1992... Analysis of the data within each of the 11 IDC vertical market segments produced an enormous volume of results. In order to present a comprehensive overview of the total market by vertical segment, following is a brief rundown of the results...

A vertical leap of faith. (Editorial)
March 27, 1992... Several questions have shaped IDC'S analysis of our recent survey of end users in the United States: What are the best predictors of buyers' purchase intentions? How do they contribute? Will they continue to influence users' buying plans as the...