Posted on 01/12/2009 5:20:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
Channel News and Analysis Slideshow: Dire Predictions: Tech Vendors That May Not Survive 2009
In the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse Survey, we asked solution providers which vendors they thought would go out of business or be acquired in 2009. The results may shock you. Based on their perceptions and predictions, the following are the vendors that made the going list of those that won’t be here in 2010.
Naa if Jobs leaves apple they can coast at least a year on momentum alone. The big question for Apple is who replaces him?
VMWare on this list? Puuuhlease...
If anything, their market share will explode as companies frantically try to slash their physical hardware costs.
Now CA on the other hand - they can go down in flames!
Glad to see Symantec and McAfee on the list, their products are such resource hogs. Yet I still see them on a lot of corporate desktops, I guess their sales reps know how to convincingly lose a golf game to many a clueless CEO who has his secretary do his keyboarding work.
Apple wouldn’t go under, at least not quickly without Jobs. However, if there ever was a single person who was the driving force behind a large sector of business, it’s Steve Jobs. We’ve seen Apple without him, and it wasn’t so good. Apple will suffer without him, and hopefully Jobs will groom his own replacement when the time comes.
I can’t believe SCO isn’t on this list. Every company on this list is speculation, but there is no way SCO will survive 2009 as more than a litigation shell company with no products.
They’re going to cross apply their expertise to medicine and create a drug that keeps people on their deathbeds perpetually. I’m not sure what the market potential is, but who knows.
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