On whom will the spotlight - and the ax - fall in 1992? Great things are expected of Borland, more turmoil at I.B.M. and at Compaq

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The year 1991 was a difficult year in the computer industry, and according to industry observers, 1992 might be the same. According to John McCarthy of Forrester Research Inc, there will be continued price-cutting and competition, and a battle looms between Microsoft Corp with its Windows program and IBM with its OS/2 operating system. Tim Bajarin, VP at Creative Strategies International, says the most significant event next year will be the court's decision in Apple Computer Inc's suit against Microsoft Corp, which claims that Microsoft's Windows interface illegally copies the Macintosh operating system. Jim Seymour, of Seymour & Associates, foresees an especially good year for Borland International Inc. Cheryl Currid, president at Currid & Company, will pay close attention to Compaq Computer Corp, which faces challenges at both the low end and the high end of its markets.

Prepackaged software, Computer software industry, Software industry, Price cutting, Industry Analysis, Market Analysis, Competition, Preview of Coming Year

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'Mother of all markets' or a 'pipe dream driven by greed?' No one knows who will want a personal communicator - but suppliers are lining up

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Pocket-sized digital communications devices, expected to appear in mid-1990s, were the subject of attention and speculation at the Mobile '92 conference, held in the week of Jul 13, 1992, in Burlingame, CA. Almost everybody is convinced that an enormous new market potentially exists, but nobody is certain what the new devices will look like, what they will do, what they will cost or what they will be called. Various names are suggested: personal digital assistants (PDAs), picocomputers, personal information devices, mobile digital communicators or digital information devices. Apple Computer Inc's chief executive, John Sculley, envisions 'the mother of all markets.' One who is not so convinced is Intel Chmn Andrew Grove, who calls the notion of a wireless, pocket-sized personal communicator 'a pipe dream driven by greed.'

COMMUNICATION, Hand-held computers, Handheld computers, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Wireless LANs, Telecommunications, Laptop computers, Portable computers, Quotations, Personal communications services, Grove, Andrew S., Laptop/Portable Computer, Future Technologies, Conferences and Meetings, Communications Technology, Sculley, John, Wireless Network

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Alook ahead: networking looms; and so does a revived I.B.M. But Apple, if not stalled, is no longer in the fast lane

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What will the 1990s bring? Choices will continue to get more complex, not simpler. Most businesses realize that it now makes sense to buy hardware from different vendors. In the multivendor environment of the 1990s, the problem will be to get machines to talk to each other, using networking and software standards built for compatibility. New service 'superstations' will evolve, which will assume a corporation's computer support and maintenance. IBM is a leader here, already offering comprehensive support and services. Among microcomputers, Apple's Macintosh set the pace in the 1980s, showing what an elegant, easy-to-use computer should be, but Apple is losing its advantage. IBM, beset with problems in recent years, seems likely to revive.

Communications Equipment, Computer networks, column, Networks, Trends

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