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trendovi.1 dejanr,
Bell-Northern će na tržište uskoro izbaciti komunikator koji nalikuje na onaj koji koriste u "Zvezdanim stazama". Celularni telefon koji nosite u džepu, otvorite ga, kažete ime onoga s kim želite da pričate i... pričate :) NOVOSTI/microb 4.856.
trendovi.2 mnikolic,
Jučerašnja Politika donosi jako zanimljive rezultate istraživanja tržišta personalnih računara za prvu polovinu 1994. godine. Udeo na tržištu personalnih računara: 9.8% Compaq 8.6% Apple 8.5% IBM 5.0% Packard-Bell 4.7% NEC 3.0% AST 2.9% Dell 2.8% Hewlett-Packard 2.5% ACER 2.4% Gateway 2000 49.8% Ostali Udeo na tržištu mikropocesora: ------------------------------ 74% Intel 8% Motorola 6% AMD 2% Texas Instruments 10% Ostali Udeo na tržištu softvera: ------------------------- 38.3% Microsoft 12.0% Lotus 7.2% Novell 5.3% Adobe-Aldus 2.7% Symantec 34.6% Ostali
trendovi.4 nenad,
InfoWorld je ugledni američki kompjuterski časopis koji se pretežno bavi temama koje kod nas najčešće nisu uopšte zastupljene - trendovima u kompletnoj računarskoj industriji, primeni u velikim korporacijama, kompjuterskoj tehnologiji uopšte, integraciji sa velikim sistemima i sl. Nema onih praktično-korisnih end-user tekstova, članci su namenjeni gotovo isključivo IS profesionalcima. Ipak, i njima se "omakne" neki ovakav tekst. U pitanju je duhovito predviđanje za narednih nekoliko godina, do 2004., kada je smak sveta. Pročitajte, odlično je. :) Autor je Nicholas Petreley. Tekst je Copyright (C) 1997 by InfoWorld Publishing Company, tako da ne sme da ide dalje. It ain't over 'til it's over, but until then, here's what this guy says the future holds As is customary this time of year, I'll go out on a limb and make a number of predictions for the coming years. This time I'll take you all the way out to the year 2004, but no further because that's when the world ends. ---- 1997 Apple puts a Pentium Pro in its Newton eMate computer, a unit introduced in 1996 that looked more like a notebook than a personal digital assistant (PDA). The U.S. Department of Justice investigation of Microsoft's formerly alleged anti-competitive behavior comes to an end. Microsoft is found guilty. As punishment, Microsoft is restricted from pressuring Tiekwando Inc., the one remaining computer manufacturer that doesn't pre-load Windows 95. In spite of this, Tiekwando cuts an exclusive pre-load deal with Microsoft. Unfortunately, the company goes out of business when one of its machines overheats and the garage burns down. Novell ships NetWare 5.0. Digital, still confused about its marketing slogan, shortens it from "Whatever it takes" to "Whatever." Larry Ellison of Oracle spends the year evangelizing the server appliance, dubbed the Network Server. Just plug it in, and it lets you do whatever you want with your Network Computers. Java becomes the official language of the Network Server model. ---- 1998 A college student in Greeley, Colo., notices Novell shipped NetWare 5.0 in 1997. Discovering it had overbudgeted in 1997 for its legal costs, Microsoft buys Borland with the surplus. Oracle's Network Servers begin to ship. In response, Microsoft announces the "zero-dollar initiative" for Windows NT Server. For just $8,800 per month, you get to rent a sealed box with a reduced administration version of Windows NT Server included for free. Microsoft calls this "reduced administration" because the new license agreement limits user connections to 10 per box. Java becomes the official language of the 1998 U.S. Olympic team. ---- 1999 The Nasdaq market breaks records as technology stocks reflect a sudden growth in software companies providing year-2000 fixes to legacy applications. Oracle's Ellison begins to evangelize the IS manager appliance, dubbed the Network Dictator. Just plug it in, and it starts telling you what you can't do with your Network Computers. The Apple Newton eMate PDA gets a 13-inch color display and bigger built-in keyboard. An elderly man in Clearwater, Fla., actually cares that Novell shipped NetWare 5.0 in 1997. ---- 2000 Home Internet appliances take the market by storm. Network Computer sales exceed the sales of new PCs. Network Servers are catching up to Windows NT Server sales. Seven IBM employees buy Network Dictators. Microsoft's Brad Silverberg sends a good news/bad news memo to Bill Gates. The bad news: Sun, Oracle, and Netscape are taking a bigger bite of Microsoft's profits and market share. The good news: With the head start Microsoft is getting on the ActiveFixer year-10000 project, Microsoft may finally ship a product on time. Apple's eMate PDA gets a detachable keyboard and mouse. Java becomes the official language of Canada, requiring Javasoft to add an "eh?" method to all root Java classes. ---- 2001 Besides finding an unusual alien monolith (a space oddity) on the moon, nothing significant happens this year. ---- 2002 Apple's eMate is broken up into separate components, including a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and main Intel-based CPU unit. You can optionally hook it up to a network. Pundits hail this innovative alternative to Network Computers as the Next Big Thing. Microsoft's Gates begins to evangelize the OS appliance, dubbed the Benevolent Dictator. Just plug it in, and it starts telling Ellison what he can do with his Network Computers. ---- 2003 IBM creates the most ambitious computer project ever tackled. This database and communications system, dubbed Olympia, handles all communications and banking worldwide. In order for the system to eliminate the need for currency, everyone must have an IBM computer chip implanted in his or her right hand or forehead. The digital signature in the embedded chip begins with the numbers 666, fulfilling the 2,000-year-old biblical prophecy. Widespread publicity regarding this telltale feature of the chip will create enough controversy to postpone the apocalypse. Unfortunately, although the worldwide system works perfectly in every other respect, it fails to transfer this critical bit of information to the press. ---- 2004 It is obvious to all that the end of the world is imminent this year. Silverberg sends a good news/bad news memo to Gates. The bad news: the ActiveFixer project is three years behind schedule. The good news: It looks as if Microsoft won't have to deliver it on time. IBM announces that it will discontinue support for OS/2.
trendovi.5 nenad,
Evo kako su neke velike kompjuterske firme poslovale u poslednja tri meseca prošle godine. Compaq: $5.4 billion in sales, $462 million in profits The slow Christmas selling season didn't hamper Compaq. Analysts attribute the company's record sales in the quarter to a solid product mix and strong financial and asset management. Microsoft: $2.7 billion in sales, $741 million in profits In spite of the software giant's well-known tendency to understate its own earnings potential, Chief Financial Officer Mike Brown said market realities are catching up with the company -- and that double-digit growth isn't likely to last significantly beyond the next two quarters. IBM: $23.1 billion in sales; $2 billion in profits IBM had generally strong performance across the board -- highlighted by its PC and services business -- but Wall Street was disappointed with the company's lower profit margins. Intel: $6.4 billion in sales, $1.9 billion in profits Boasting a 117 percent increase in earnings, Intel set new records for unit shipments of microprocessors and chip sets, but warns of a flat Q1. Cyrix's $4.5 million loss was lower than anticipated, causing its shares to rise. Worldwide semiconductor sales off $10B in '96 Netscape: $115 million in sales, $8.8 million in profits Netscape reported financials that were right in line with analysts' expectations -- a bit of a change, since the company has regularly stunned investors with its growth. CEO Jim Barksdale said corporate sales of E-mail and groupware products will carry the company forward this year. Netscape shares plunged earlier this month after an analyst downgraded his earnings estimate for the company. Other analysts dismiss the volatility in light of the company's overall business plan and strategy. Apple: $2.1 billion in sales, $120 million net loss Despite a 32 percent drop in sales, CEO Gil Amelio says new products and a new corporate culture will be among the elements helping to drive a turnaround. Digital: $3.358 billion in sales, $31.9 million in profits After a poor first quarter, Digital bounced back in Q2. Company executives foresee strong demand for Alpha systems and processors helping to fuel growth in 1997. Other companies reporting earnings: In shadow of buyout, AST announces $68M Q4 loss Egghead shutters 77 stores; CEO quits CheckPoint closes year on a high note CompUSA meets expectations in Q2 BroadVision loses $3.6 million in Q4 Gateway beats expectations in Q4 Sybase reports earnings drop; CEO Kertzman says company is on comeback trail TI reports Q4 loss, sells mobile business to Acer Vanstar falls on lowered Q3 expectations AT&T profits, excluding restructuring costs, up 12 percent in Q4 Lucent earns $859M in Q1 NCR earns $7M in quarter Sun sees 42 percent jump in Q2 earnings CA sales top $1B in third quarter USR's sales increase 77 percent Motorola profits drops 45% in Q4 McAfee up on positive Q4 Tandem sees positive Q1 Ascend shares rise on strong Q4 Bay drops $173M in Q2
trendovi.6 nenad,
Evo kako ljudi iz Microsoft-ovog odeljenja za istraživanje i razvoj (da, postoji i to ;) vide komputere za 5 ili 10 godina, kompjutere koji će moći da slušaju, pričaju, vide... Microsoft research group peers into the future Microsoft Corp.'s advanced technology and research group can give plenty of gee-whiz demonstrations-from interactive parrots to software that can track a user's gaze-but behind every demo there is a sense of practicality. "There is a big gap from research to reality," said Microsoft speech researcher X.D. Huang at a technology briefing at company headquarters here. "People expect humanlike performance, and we're not near that yet." Huang's speech technology is one of the building blocks of a fully interactive desktop that still exists only in science fiction and R&D blueprints-a desktop that can see and hear a user and provide intelligent feedback. But Microsoft isn't about to make the same mistakes ascribed to Xerox Corp.'s legendary PARC in the 1970s and 1980s-dreaming up ideas such as the GUI but turning out few working products. According to Microsoft Vice President Rick Rashid, one of the missions of the 110-person research group is to be a resource for the commercial product groups. For example, the Office Assistant in Office 97 and the Microsoft Support troubleshooters use engines developed by a research team that is looking into how software can learn user preferences. Similarly, research by the graphics team led to Talisman, a hardware design for three-dimensional modeling. That's not to say that the research projects have to fall into clear release schedules, though. They are, after all, just research. If the research has a final goal, it's far in the future. The mission of Huang's speech technology group, for example, is to make PCs speak naturally and comprehend human speech. The Holy Grail for his group is a continuous-dictation system that doesn't require pauses between each word. The speech-recognition engines available today require users to isolate each word. Their small vocabularies and comparatively high error rates make them lose their luster once they're off the demonstration floor and into users' hands. IBM, for example, included its VoiceType engine in last year's Warp 4 client, but few corporate IS departments made regular use of it. Microsoft itself is internally testing a dictation application based on its Whisper engine, but it is unclear when, or even if, that application will be commercially available. Continuous-speech recognition, Huang said, may be 10 years in development and will require at least 64MB of RAM and a chip with the power of Intel Corp.'s Merced, due in 1999. Computers that listen and talk, however, will probably appear before computers that can see. Senior Researcher Steven Shafer, who left the academic world to join Microsoft last year, does not expect PC-based cameras to be ubiquitous for at least five years. By then, he said, the research into a vision-based user interface will have only begun to move into the realm of the practical. A near-future goal of a vision-based user interface is to track arm gestures and heads. The eventual goal for the group is to enable a computer to lip-read, recognize faces and even recognize facial expressions. Today, PC-based cameras can trigger applications when a user steps in front of the lens. And, with some training and initializing, a PC also can track a user's gaze. But the gaze-tracking is limited to large sections of the screen, as demonstrated through a slow, full-screen ticktacktoe. By way of comparison, vision-based user interfaces are at the same state as the PC game market was when Pong was introduced in the 1980s. In keeping with the goal of spinning off pieces of technology, however, the vision technology group also is working with product groups such as SoftImage and PictureIt, as well as MSNBC and the Consumer Group, to leverage research work on the creation of 3-D or panoramic images.
trendovi.7 johnnya,
>> Evo kako ljudi iz Microsoft-ovog odeljenja za istraživanje i >> razvoj (da, postoji i to ;) vide komputere za 5 ili 10 godina, >> kompjutere koji će moći da slušaju, pričaju, vide... ... i vrište kada se na njih budu instalirali Microsoft programi :))
trendovi.8 madamov,
> The Holy Grail for his group is a continuous-dictation system > that doesn't require pauses between each word. > > The speech-recognition engines available today require users to > isolate each word. Their small vocabularies and comparatively > high error rates make them lose their luster once they're off the > demonstration floor and into users' hands. Jadna nam budućnost ako Microsoft treba da se bavi razvojem ovakvih tehnologija - opet izmišljaju toplu vodu. Tvrdnja u drugom pasusu je netačna - Appleov PlainTalk (koji se, BTW, dobija džabe uz svaki sistem) ne zahteva da mu se svaka reč izdvoji, sasvim se normalno može reći "Computer, open control panels folder" bez izdvajanja i stvar radi. Problem je u naglasku, još nije razvijen pouzdan metod da Mac prepozna Tarzan English, mada se i mašina i korisnik navikavaju jedan na drugog. B) Da ne govorim o tome da PlainTalk postoji još od prvih AV Macova, dakle tamo od kraja 1993. godine. Evo nečega na tu temu sa jedne Mac mailing liste: Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 17:54:26 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway@solutions.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac vs. Windows Speech Recognition Message-ID: <199702220156.RAA23512@scv3.apple.com> This tidbit is from: Marc <MAKITAMAC@aol.com> Happen to catch "Nextstep" on Discovery channel Friday night? Touting innovative technology, they demonstrated Microsoft's speech recognition software. For only $299 (includes free microphone ($5 value?!)) You too can own this gem! How many years has Plaintalk been around?! The show should be renamed "Backstep". Feel free to check out feedback page: <http://www.nextstep.com/feedback/feedback.html> _______________________ Digital Guy Sez: Funny you should mention speech recognition. I just spent an hour tricking up my Mac with PlainTalk 1.5 to accomplish a long time goal of mine -- full speech control of the majority of my administrative chores. I downloaded PlainTalk 1.5 from the Apple Speech Web Site: <http://speech.apple.com/ptk/> I installed it and took it on a spin. On a 6100/60 performance was pretty snappy, so much so I went on a search for some goodies to script some speakable items. A Scripting Addition called AutoType allows you to create scripts that type characters (including Command, Option, or Control keys) as if they were typed from your keyboard: <http://www.wrldpwr.com:80/osaxen/autotype_osax.html> I could create absurdly simple scripts that could be used across a whole set of applications by typing a command key sequence, instead scripting directly to each application. Here's an example script for my "Undo" speakable item: AutoType "z" holding "Command" That's it! Save the script as an "Application", and make sure "Never show startup screen" is checked. With Speech Recognition on I say "Undo", and the last action is undone within the current application. If the "Undo" menu item is not active, nothing happens. Using things like TypeIt4Me and OneClick I can create very complex macros and scripts specific to each application that can be triggered by a common command key combination. This reduces the number of speakable items, which improves performance. Application switching is done by dropping an alias into the speakable items folder (or selecting an item and saying "Make this item speakable", and it's done for you :). I've been using speech recognition to do real work all day now, and it's not only useful, it's REALLY cool. I can't wait to try this on my 8500/180 at home! $300 for speech recognition? For no additional cost (the Microphone's included with every Mac too :) I can say "Sign" and the following happens: Kick butt! John J. Halbig (a.k.a the Digital Guy) e-mail: evangelist@apple.com ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
trendovi.9 nenad,
> Jadna nam budućnost ako Microsoft treba da se bavi razvojem ovakvih > tehnologija - opet izmišljaju toplu vodu. Tvrdnja u drugom pasusu je > netačna - Appleov PlainTalk (koji se, BTW, dobija džabe uz svaki sistem) > ne zahteva da mu se svaka reč izdvoji, sasvim se normalno može reći > "Computer, open control panels folder" bez izdvajanja i stvar radi. Vidiš što ti je vešto plasirana i formulisana informacija. Ako si primetio u tekstu se pominje IBM-ov VoiceType i Warp-ova mogućnost za prepoznavanje govora i kaže se kako zahteva pauze između reči. To je tačno, ali kad se radi o _diktiranju_ običnog engleskog govornog teksta, dakle nečega iz fonda od 20.000 reči koliko je podržano u osnovnom paketu, ili čak 40.000 koliko maksimalno podržava. Za izdavanje komandi naravno nije potrebno odvajati reči već se mogu zadavati na isti način kao što si ti gore opisao, praviti makroi, definisati sopstvene komande (dok ne izlaze iz gorepomenutog fonda reči) i sl. Dok nisam ponovo obratio pažnju na tekst uopšte nisam ukapirao da su, praktično, rekli neistinu, jer su, po običaju, poredili neuporedivo. :)
trendovi.10 nenad,
Evo šta Dataquest predviđa za narednih nekoliko godina. Pozitivna očekivanja za Apple, ne tako dobra za Network Computer, Netscape ostaje glavni snabdevač Web čitača, Intel gubi pola tržišta procesora tokom sledeće godine... Dataquest gives a peek into its crystal ball Market researcher and technology analyst Dataquest issued a set of predictions and findings here Tuesday that bode well for Apple Computer but cast doubts about network computers. At Dataquest Predicts: 1997 and Beyond, a conference for large-scale deployers of computers and networks, the firm offered a few surprises amid dozens of predictions for the computer industry through the end of the decade. Casting off a rising tide of criticism of Apple, W. Ladd Bodem, worldwide director of Dataquest's IT services group, said the Cupertino, Calif., company should sell a lot of computers in 1997 and into 1998. "We looked at the numbers," Bodem said and found that Apple has reversed its price-performance equation to offer a lot of computing power for the buck. The company recently cut prices and offered new products with faster processors. Industry star Intel, however, will get a run for its money by Pentium chip cloners and may hold on to only about 50 percent of the market for Pentium-class sales in 1998. Consequently, chipmaker AMD will "have a hot 1998," predicts Dataquest. The recent advent of the $1,000 PC will work against any mass migration to the thin-client, network computer, said Bodem, at least through this year. Dataquest believes the cost of a full-fledged PC will continue to drop and that users will want the local power and storage of a PC. Although lacking a compelling price point against PCs, NCs will nonetheless take the place of terminals, but Dataquest doesn't believe that will change the overall PC landscape. In fact, Dataquest predicts continuing heady growth -- a rate of 17.5 percent from 1996 to 1997 -- for the worldwide PC industry, with especially high growth rates in Asia. In the U.S. home consumer market, growth will slow and peak at a penetration level of 36 percent of households and then retreat slightly over the next few years, said Dataquest. Gigabit Ethernet products will arrive to quench the thirst for bandwidth on local area networks this year, Dataquest predicts. And the old "80/20" rule of network traffic, wherein 80 percent of network traffic is local and 20 percent backbone, will be inverted in 1997, the result of centrally deployed intranet servers. Other predictions made here Tuesday by Dataquest include the following: - Netscape's browsers will remain the Web client of choice in intranets due to the multiplatform versions of the Navigator product line. - Expect the rapid development of new software delivery channels such as distributed objects and "push" technologies. - More than half of all software support transactions will be conducted online by 1998. - The concept of a "computing utility" will emerge -- a new twist on the old time-share computing model -- in which businesses and users will buy computing services without owning any hardware. Such services will grow to 30 percent of the IT market by 2000. - Software application suites will become increasingly customized to satisfy more vertical markets. - Expect more than 140 million PCs on the Internet by 2000. - More than half of all Web servers will be on intranets by 2000. - Online commerce, with the lion's share in business-to-business transactions, will become a gold rush in 1998 and blossom to $12 billion in total transactions by 2000
trendovi.11 nenad,
CORBA wares to make a splash at Object World The increasing proliferation of products based on the Object Management Group's (OMG's) CORBA technology will be demonstrated the week of March 3 at the Object World exposition in Boston. Many CORBA developers will unveil products that implement the latest OMG specifications, including security and transactions, while crucial additions to the architecture -- such as messaging and standards for analysis and design -- continue to be honed. Despite its recent momentum, the CORBA market faces the imminent challenge of Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) technologies, which spearhead the Redmond, Wash., software giant's enterprise software push. "The lack of [Transaction Server] DCOM and Falcon [message-oriented middleware] from Microsoft gives CORBA vendors an important window of opportunity over the next 18 to 24 months. But Microsoft will get there with the DCOM infrastructure, transactions, and messaging," said Melinda Ballou, senior analyst with the Meta Group, in Stamford, Conn. In addition to hammering out the integration of messaging support within the CORBA architecture and bridging DCOM and CORBA, the OMG is working on a Portable Object Adapter for the portability of object request brokers (ORBs). Among those vendors looking to push objects toward the mainstream is Platinum Technology, which will unveil entry-level and departmental versions of its Paradigm Plus analysis and design package. The company's Paradigm Plus Learning Edition and Professional Edition are single-user versions of the enterprise-level tool that sport limited versions of its modeling and round-trip engineering capabilities. The Learning Edition will be distributed for free; the Professional Edition will cost $1,495 for a single-user license. ICL Inc. will update its DAIS ORB with security services that conform to the OMG's security specifications, including user authentication, access control, security associations, message protection, auditing, and administration. Expersoft will unveil an upgrade of its CORBAplus C++ ORB that boasts a 40 percent performance boost and support of CORBA events and relationships services. Irish middleware developer Iona Technologies, which last week issued an initial public offering, will debut an implementation of the CORBA Trader technology that applies fuzzy-logic search capabilities to object browsing. Object World East will take place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston from March 2 to March 6.
trendovi.12 orlic,
> The Holy Grail for his group is a continuous-dictation system > that doesn't require pauses between each word. > > The speech-recognition engines available today require users to > isolate each word. Their small vocabularies and comparatively > high error rates make them lose their luster once they're off the > demonstration floor and into users' hands. Ma> Jadna nam buducnost ako Microsoft treba da se bavi razvojem ovakvih Ma> tehnologija - opet izmisljaju toplu vodu. Tvrdnja u drugom pasusu je Ma> netacna - Appleov PlainTalk (koji se, BTW, dobija dzabe uz svaki Apsolutno je tacna. Nisi dobro preveo. Ne radi se o upravljanju glasom (to radi sasma ok i 486 sa 8MB) vec o DIKTIRANJU glasom. Ne bih rekao da taj program omogucava da sve ovo sto smo mi otkucali izgovorimo...
trendovi.13 madamov,
> > The Holy Grail for his group is a continuous-dictation system > > that doesn't require pauses between each word. > > > > The speech-recognition engines available today require users to > > isolate each word. Their small vocabularies and comparatively > > high error rates make them lose their luster once they're off the > > demonstration floor and into users' hands. > > Ma> Jadna nam buducnost ako Microsoft treba da se bavi razvojem ovakvih > Ma> tehnologija - opet izmisljaju toplu vodu. Tvrdnja u drugom pasusu je > Ma> netacna - Appleov PlainTalk (koji se, BTW, dobija dzabe uz svaki > > Apsolutno je tacna. Nisi dobro preveo. Ne radi se o upravljanju glasom (to > radi sasma ok i 486 sa 8MB) vec o DIKTIRANJU glasom. Ne bih rekao da taj > program omogucava da sve ovo sto smo mi otkucali izgovorimo... Izvinjavam se što citiram celu poruku, ali moram: kada neko kaže "The speech-recognition engines available today require users to isolate each word." onda to znači to što se kaže, a ceo tekst govori o prepoznavanju govora, ne samo o sistemu za diktiranje. Dakle, tvrdnja je apsolutno netačna. Kada već pominješ mašinu, to radi dobro i Mac sa 68030 procesorom na 16 MHz. Takođe, PlainTalk nije program, već "speech-recognition engine" koji se može doinstalirati na Mac OS 7.5.3 i standardno se isporučuje uz Mac OS. I odgovor je da, da smo ovo kucali na engleskom izgovorio bi bez greške, čak možeš da biraš kojim glasom, štaviše možeš da kreiraš glasove.
trendovi.14 orlic,
> Ma> Jadna nam buducnost ako Microsoft treba da se bavi razvojem ovakvih > Ma> tehnologija - opet izmisljaju toplu vodu. Tvrdnja u drugom pasusu je > Ma> netacna - Appleov PlainTalk (koji se, BTW, dobija dzabe uz svaki > > Apsolutno je tacna. Nisi dobro preveo. Ne radi se o upravljanju glasom (to > radi sasma ok i 486 sa 8MB) vec o DIKTIRANJU glasom. Ne bih rekao da taj > program omogucava da sve ovo sto smo mi otkucali izgovorimo... Ma> Izvinjavam se sto citiram celu poruku, ali moram: kada neko kaze "The Ma> speech-recognition engines available today require users to isolate Ma> each word." onda to znaci to sto se kaze, a ceo tekst govori o Ma> prepoznavanju govora, ne samo o sistemu za diktiranje. Dakle, tvrdnja Ma> je apsolutno netacna. Kada vec pominjes masinu, to radi dobro i Mac sa Ma> 68030 procesorom na 16 MHz. Takode, PlainTalk nije program, vec Ma> "speech-recognition engine" koji se moze doinstalirati na Mac OS 7.5.3 Ma> i standardno se isporucuje uz Mac OS. I odgovor je da, da smo ovo Ma> kucali na engleskom izgovorio bi bez greske, cak mozes da biras kojim Ma> glasom, stavise mozes da kreiras glasove. Mi se nesto stvarno ne razumemo :)) Diktiranje glasom znaci da ja pricam "kompjuteru ukucaj ovaj tekst" i da mi se u ekranu npr. worda pojavi tekst "kompjuteru ukucaj ovaj tekst". Prepoznavanje glasa tj. upravljanj glasom znaci da ti kazes 'startuj corel draw' i da se corel startuje. Prepoznavanje prirodnog govora tj. bez pauze izmedju reci znaci da ne moras da kazes "startuj__corel__draw" tj. sa pauzama u govoru izmedju reci. Ako to stvarno radi ovo prvo navedeno molio bih ako je moguce jedna prezentacija ;)
trendovi.15 madamov,
> Prepoznavanje glasa tj. upravljanj glasom znaci da ti kazes 'startuj corel > draw' i da se corel startuje. Prepoznavanje prirodnog govora tj. bez pauze > izmedju reci znaci da ne moras da kazes "startuj__corel__draw" tj. sa > pauzama u govoru izmedju reci. > > Ako to stvarno radi ovo prvo navedeno molio bih ako je moguce jedna > prezentacija ;) Upravo tako, govoriš mu bez pauze, normalnim glasom, a možeš da uključiš da li da računar reaguje tek posle ključne reči (recimo, daš kompjuteru ime "Roger") ili da proba na sve da reaguje (bolje je da uključiš, jer ćeš zateći računar sa čudnim rasporedom prozora i otvorenih aplikacija, ako uopšte bude uključen, posle jednog telefonskog razgovora u blizini B) Jedina mana je, kao što rekoh, naglasak jer se lše prepoznaje engleski koji nije akcentovan američki.
trendovi.16 nenad,
IBM and Sun embrace Java Beans, give OpenDoc the cold shoulder IBM and Sun Microsystems have decided to standardize on Java Beans rather than OpenDoc as their enterprisewide object model. The move to Java Beans was a natural outgrowth of IBM's increasing focus on network-centric computing at the enterprise level, said Scott Hebner, manager of application development and marketing for IBM's software group. It will come soon after Apple said it was backing off OpenDoc development. (See "Apple reorganizes itself as a Next clone.") Hebner said that IBM will announce its Java Beans strategy on April 2, the opening of Sun's JavaOne trade show in San Francisco. "OpenDoc was optimized for being an OS-specific type environment," Hebner said. "In line with our focus on network computing, our component architecture is going to be Java Beans, and that is where we are heading with all this." As part of that initiative, IBM and Sun will propose that the Object Management Group (OMG) use Java Beans instead of OpenDoc as its object-container model. OpenDoc's future, at least at IBM, will be as a source for adding object- container technology to a number of products, such as VisualAge for C++ and other tools, Hebner said. According to sources familiar with the talks between the two companies, that could include incorporating some components from OpenDoc into the Java Beans architecture, giving a more robust Java Beans implementation the capability to create object-based compound documents. However, Sun and IBM have not come to any agreement on how use OpenDoc technology within Java Beans. IBM's decision to downplay OpenDoc's strategic importance also calls into question Apple's plans to use the technology as well. Both Apple and IBM executives had been talking with Sun about merging the two technologies into a tightly integrated offering, referred to variously as Open Beans or JavaDoc, sources said. However, Sun officials balked at the idea of using a container technology that would have to be developed for specific OSes and could not support network computers relying on only rudimentary OSes at the client level. "When you look at it from our perspective, the landscape has shifted pretty significantly over the last several years," Hebner said. "We had a focus on building OS-specific component-based apps to one of building applications for network computing. IBM's strength and focus is on helping our users reap the benefits of network computing and electronic business solutions and commerce -- Java Beans is ideal for that type of environment." So far, only Oracle and Netscape have committed to supporting a common object architecture alongside Sun and IBM, but the four companies will propose Java Beans as the object container model to the OMG, sources said. Although the OMG has not yet been approached, the head of the standards body indicated that it wouldn't be a problem to replace OpenDoc with Java Beans. "As far as I am concerned, trading one component architecture for another is not a bad thing," said Chris Stone, president and chairman of the OMG. "That is the way these vendors work."
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Shvatajući nemogućnost da jedna ista stvar zadovolji sve potrebe, JavaSoft je najavio "razdvajanje" razvoja Jave u 4 ciljna pravca, namenjena različitim kompjuterima, uređajima, okruženjima i namenama. Naravno, sve je to i dalje Java, ali biće definisani različiti podskupovi API-ja za mašine sa različitom namenom i mogućnostima. To su: - JaveBeans, - Personal Java, - Embeded Java i - SmartCard Java JavaSoft to make Java more digestible with four flavors JavaSoft, in the face of increasing speculation about the lack of coherence in Java development directions, will announce next week a segmentation of Java development into four distinct areas. To be unveiled at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, the four areas -- Enterprise Java Beans, Personal Java, Embedded Java, and SmartCard Java -- will provide a series of specific APIs to which Java developers will write code for varying platforms. "We are stretching the Java platform, both up and down," said Jon Kannegaard, vice president of software products at JavaSoft. The various Java development tracks will employ the same Java development tools but create different implementations for each of the four areas. At the top of the heap is Enterprise Java Beans, an umbrella schema for many existing Java technologies, such as Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI), and Java Interface Definition Language (IDL). "Java Beans will be extended to do transactions, using some of the TP monitors that third-party vendors have built," Kannegaard said. The Java segmentation announcement will feature a number of "major" third-party vendors, Kannegaard said. While giving coherence to the Java enterprise development area, JavaSoft also hopes that the Personal, Embedded, and SmartCard Java segments will build momentum for smaller Java applications. Personal Java is for smaller, non-PC devices, Kannegaard said. "These are things like smart phones, [personal digital assistants], Web TVs, with small memory and perhaps small displays," Kannegaard said. "For the most part, they would have 2 megs of memory or less." Embedded Java is yet one step smaller, designed for nondisplay devices such as fax machines, copiers, heating systems, and gas pumps. "These would be even smaller, since they have no display needs," Kannegaard said. "They would typically have 1 meg or less of memory." At the bottom of the Java development segmentation is SmartCard Java, which would allow end-users to carry personal data -- such as workspace certificates and access permissions -- on a card that could be inserted into desktops throughout an enterprise.
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[Image] Weak challenge to [Image][Image] [Home] Win-ternet empire [News Library] [Index] Microsoft lacks Jedi adept at striking back [Feedback] Published: March 23, 1997 [Image] Dan Gillmor's home page BY DAN GILLMOR Mercury News Computing Editor SO there was Paul Gross, former major-domo at a software company that took on Microsoft and lost, up on the big screen in the Santa Clara Convention Center ballroom -- touting Microsoft's latest software-development tools. Then there was Lew Platt, chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, on a stage the same day at HP headquarters -- adopting Microsoft Windows NT as a cornerstone of HP's future. And there on a virtual stage, the official Oscars Web site promoting tonight's Academy Awards, was a contest you could enter online -- but only if you used a Microsoft Web browser. Was there a common thread in all this? You bet. The unsubtle messages, part of an ongoing campaign, said: Microsoft is inevitable. It will dip into endlessly deep pockets to buy anything, or anyone, to feed its infinite appetites. It will out-work, under-price, and out-last any competition. It will own any market it chooses, and punish customers who buy from the competition. Whether you're a competitor or customer, you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. It seemed futile for Gross, who bore an almost bemused expression in his taped pitch to some 45,000 software developers in 90 locations around the globe, part of Microsoft's ``Developer Days'' event. Maybe he was tired. Maybe he was appreciating the irony: Before joining Microsoft late last year, he was senior vice president for research and development at software toolmaker Borland International, a company that once had dreams of challenging Microsoft for software pre-eminence but now struggles even for stability, a company where the very word ``Microsoft'' churns up stomach acid. It seemed futile for Platt, who put HP squarely on what is becoming a Windows NT bandwagon. In the process he told the world that HP's future, in a fundamental way, lies in being yet another Microsoft reseller -- a perhaps risky strategy for a giant company that wants to control its own destiny. And it threatens to be futile for people who use the World Wide Web, as demonstrated by the Internet Explorer-only online contest on the Oscars Web site. This wasn't a big deal by itself. But Microsoft's browser tactics are just a small part of the company's Windows-čber-alles determination to turn the Internet into what a friend now calls the Win-ternet -- and, ultimately, to put Microsoft software in the heart of every electronic device on the planet. When you control the access to the device, you may ultimately control how people use it. In a manner that would have left the robber barons of the late 19th century gaping in absolute awe, Microsoft is approaching something unprecedented: a monopoly that could well own the choke points of tomorrow's commerce and communications. Political and economic theory and history suggest I'm probably too pessimistic, that all-powerful empires rarely come about -- and that even when they do they don't last. They crumble from within or are undermined from without, or both, particularly in a business that moves as fast as technology. Theory, even when correct, dismisses the devastating human costs of empire. Too often, people cite Microsoft's hard-as-nails business tactics as evidence of an evil empire. That's way too strong a word, and it ignores the very positive aspects of the operation. The company's competitive advantages have also included brilliant management, highly capable and motivated employees, exceptionally hard work, often superb products and an unerring ability to cash in on its competitors' frequent incompetence. With those traits alone, Microsoft would be one of the most formidable companies on the planet. Add the hard-edged behavior and you get a potential empire, an enterprise that so far has been able to co-opt or squash every threat. To reach genuine empire, you must stir in one more ingredient: inaction on the part of those entrusted to enforce laws promoting competition and responsible corporate behavior. This is today's reality. The result is an unregulated near-monopoly whose power grows daily, a budding empire run by people whose behavior has often been anything but benevolent. Let's assume that the Justice Department's antitrust division has acted in good faith, untainted by external financial or political influences -- though the Clinton administration's visible absence of ethical or intellectual character makes that a charitable assumption. Let's also assume that the very nature of technology creates ``natural'' monopolies, a logical settling on standards, and that the high velocity of the technology industry makes the antitrust laws arcane and unenforceable in that arena. Does this mean we should abandon our efforts to promote competition, and accept unregulated monopoly? For whatever reason, our leaders seem to have made that decision. They have concluded, I fear, that resistance is futile. If so, they have made a serious mistake. --------------------------------------------------------------- Write Dan Gillmor at the Mercury News, 750 Ridder Park Dr., San Jose, Calif. 95190; (408) 920-5016; fax (408) 920-5917. E-mail: dgillmor@sjmercury.com. 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Integracija televizije, Web-a, mreže, kompjutera je sve realnija. Microsoft je pre neku nedelju kupio firmu WebTV, a i drugi ne sede skrštenih ruku... IBM unveils TV set-top box design kit for OEMs IBM on Tuesday introduced a television set-top box design kit that combines hardware and software components in one package. The tightly integrated design is the first step in the company's plan to develop a custom chip that blends set-top box functions on a single sliver of silicon. The new set-top box design kit, and eventually the single-chip solution, will be sold to equipment manufacturers who will add their own customized functions. The set-top box reference design kit is available for demonstration immediately, with general availability scheduled for June at a price of $7,500. The kit integrates all the hardware and software needed to build a set-top box. It works with cable television systems or satellite services, including EchoStar, AlphaStar, and Canal+. Manufacturers can easily customize the design to provide online gaming, shopping, Web browsing, and other premium services, IBM said. Thomson Consumer Electronics and Tatung have already selected various IBM solutions -- all based on PowerPC chips -- to power their upcoming set-top boxes. Separately, Microware Systems said that its DAVID (Digital Audio/Video Interactive Decoder) and OS-9-based development tools will support IBM's set-top box reference platform. IBM becomes the latest in a growing list of manufacturers getting into the development of set-top boxes. According to market researcher Dataquest, semiconductor sales into the digital set-top-boxes market are expected to rise from $575 million in 1995 to $4.4 billion by 2001, with more than 30 million digital set-top boxes predicted to be in homes worldwide by 2000.
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Pre nekog vremena smo ovde pominjali Speech Recognition, pa evo nešto na tu temu, tj. šta se sve može postići računarom firme "koja propada". B) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 97 19:29:28 +0100 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac home automation Message-ID: <199704260227.TAA13664@scv3.apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Wicked Cool Stuff This tidbit is from: <f8dy@earthlink.net> Every day after work, I come home and say "Computer, I'm home", which turns on the living room and hall lights, air conditioner, and stereo system, says "Welcome home" (through my stereo system), speaks a summary of who has called during the day, then dials the modem, checks for new e-mail messages, and speaks a summary of who has sent me e-mail during the day. Here's how it works: - A caller-ID-capable modem and a $20 shareware program called MacCallerID integrates any Macintosh into your telephone system. Just plug the modem in normally, and MacCallerID displays the caller ID information on screen. It's also scriptable, and with Apple's Plaintalk Text-To-Speech and Applescript technologies (both part of the MacOS), my computer can speak in plain English and give me a summary of who has called and when. - A $5 RCA cable integrates any Macintosh with A/V ports into your stereo system -- I just plugged the RCA cable into the audio out port on my PowerMac 8500 and into an input port on my amplifier. - Eudora Light (see <http://www.eudora.com>) is a free e-mail program which is scriptable, enabling me to get information about each message through Applescript and then speak the information I want. - A $50 X-10 controller (see <http://www.smarthome.com/>) and some $10-$15 X-10 receiver integrates any Macintosh with all your lights and appliances. The controller, which plugs into the printer or modem port, sends infrared signals to the receivers to turn the lights/appliances on or off. (No special wiring is required; plug the appliance into the X-10 receiver and plug the X-10 receiver into the wall.) A $10 shareware scripting addition lets me write Applescripts to control the controller, and with Apple's Speech Recognition (free, see <http://www.speech.apple.com>), I can come into my apartment and say "Computer, lights" to run a script to turn on the lights, or in this case, "Computer, I'm home" to turn on several things at once and say "Welcome home." Total cost: the Mac, modem, and stereo I already had, caller ID service from my local phone company, and about $125 of hardware and software. And it all works flawlessly; I never expected anything less. ________________________ Digital Guy Sez: Now we just need that Majel Barret text-to-speech voice. :) ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Microsoft se nalazi na raskršću - da li da prati put otvorenih standarada koji se nameće i sve većom popularnošću Internet-a ili da i dalje koristi svoju poziciju dominantnog proizvođača operativnih sistema za učvršćivanje pozicije na tržištu. Nekoliko njihovih "inicijativa" (proizvoda i predloga standarada) su ostale u senci događaja koji su pratili Internet... Java i NC su na horizontu i MS mora da se opredeli da li da i dalje igra svoju igru ili da na vreme zauzima poziciju koju, bez svake sumnje, može da zauzme i na otvorenom tržištu. Dileme i konfuzije prisutne su i u samoj firmi, ali izgleda da je, prema poslednjim vestima, Bil Gejst "prelomio" - kome se ne dopada Windows, može da izleti kroz isti. ;) U nastavku sledi analiza trenutne MS-ove pozicije, kao i predložene koncepcije "Windows Terminala" koji treba da se suprostavi Network Computer-u. Microsoft hits the Java wall Microsoft Corp. may have successfully embraced and extended the Internet last year, but in its fight with Java and the NC, it doesn't seem to be landing many punches yet. After months of planning, the company this week postponed a major relaunch of Windows--code-named D-Day--designed to show off the operating system's scalability and short-circuit the gradual seduction of corporate users by the network computer and the Java platform. While Microsoft will continue to push its high-end clustering technology and low-end terminals during its Tech Ed conference and other events next month, other announcements--such as extensions to COM (Component Object Model) and a newly minted DNA (Distributed Network Architecture)--have been put on hold. DNA, sources said, is an outline of how programs ranging from thin clients to enterprise applications can run on Windows. Microsoft has not canceled the D-Day announcement but has put it on ice until executives figure out precisely how to present it to customers. "We have a solid asset in this thing called Windows," said one source at Microsoft. "So how do we invest and further that platform and still respond to the cross-platform needs that make Java and the NC so popular? That's what we have to figure out." While Microsoft searches for the right message, pressure is mounting. For the past 18 months, Sun Microsystems Inc., Netscape Communications Corp., IBM and Oracle Corp. have been hammering out a different message: The operating system is becoming obsolete. Corporate users haven't fully bought into that message, but it's gaining momentum. The $20 billion McKesson Corp., of San Francisco, for example, isn't ruling out any options--NCs, traditional PCs or workstations--for future network growth. "The real question is creating a cost-effective solution," said Charles Nettles, director of technology at McKesson. "We don't expect to divorce entirely the PC and OS. But we are closely looking at how we can establish the Web-top for things like [online transaction processing] applications." While he won't turn his back on new Microsoft technology, Nettles, like many other IS professionals, is leery of relying entirely on the Redmond, Wash., developer. "We are very committed to the open-systems approach," he said. And corporate users are beginning to sense Microsoft's confusion regarding the Java threat. "Lately, they have been as defensive as their competition has been offensive," said an IS manager for a large financial-services corporation. Part of the problem may be internal. Many Microsoft developers, according to sources, are dissatisfied with what they see as the company's timidity toward fully embracing Java. A top Microsoft official last week denied that there was or is an internal push to rewrite core Windows technologies in Java. "The notion of writing core parts of Windows in Java is particularly funny; it would only be slower, fatter and less capable," said Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg. "We don't think that's the right way to develop superior operating systems." Nonetheless, Microsoft is rewriting a key Windows technology--its Distributed COM transport--in Java, to extend its reach to other platforms. Several Microsoft officials acknowledged that internally there was "vigorous" discussion over what to do about Java and the NC. In fact, sources said that CEO Bill Gates squashed discussions of expanding its embrace of Java technology when he recently snapped in a meeting, "Has anyone here heard of Windows?" Windows terminal nowhere in sight If Microsoft Corp.'s plans for a Windows marketing architecture have been judged unripe, the proposed Windows Terminal is barely a seedling. Microsoft has proposed an even thinner client than the NetPC, dubbed the Windows Terminal. It's described as a task-based device that runs Windows CE on the client and either a forthcoming multiuser version of Windows NT on the server or a third-party remote protocol. However, major PC makers do not plan to build such devices, mainly because they're already building NetPCs. Response from terminal companies has been tepid at best, and interested developers complain they can't get solid information on where Microsoft is taking the initiative. Observers say this is because the Windows Terminal, which resides below the NetPC on the PC food chain, is a somewhat hastily conceived competitor to the Java-based NC (network computer). One major problem is that the device runs only Windows. "They are ignoring the desire for Java," said Mike Kantrovich, executive vice president at HDS Network Systems Inc., a former X Window System terminal company credited with releasing the first NC. "We know an NC needs to run Windows, but a Windows Terminal doesn't run anything but Windows, and enterprises believe Java is part of their future." Also unclear is the remote protocol Microsoft will use. Microsoft officials said they're undecided about whether to use the ICA3 protocol and WinFrame from Citrix Systems Inc.; its own multiuser NT, code-named Hydra; or another protocol.
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Čovek koji je pre 2 godine rekao da je Internet "prolazna moda" sada kaže da će za nekoliko godina svi komunicirati e-mailom i živeti "web-lifestyle". :) Šta još Bil Gejts predviđa za dekadu koja dolazi, detaljnije u tekstu... Gates to CEOs: Buy my stuff Bill Gates warned 100 CEOs gathered at his CEO Summit Thursday not to be "lulled to sleep" if the Internet doesn't bring startling changes to their organizations overnight. "Within 10 years, the majority of all adults will be using electronic mail and living a Web lifestyle," he predicted. The CEOs -- from top corporations in 25 countries -- trekked to Seattle for two days of speeches and discussions about how technology can make their organizations more competitive. Though Gates didn't demonstrate any Microsoft Corp. products or technologies, there was no mistaking that this was a marketing event. He praised the companies that have used Microsoft's software to make their operations more efficient and responsive to customers. And sometimes his sales pitch was anything but subtle. "Building a system that fulfills your wildest dreams is possible today," he said. The CEOs seemed most attentive when Gates outlined his vision of the world of computing a decade from now. Gates promised that computing devices will be "radically different." He also said that we'll talk to our computers instead of being dependent on keyboards and mice. And, instead of searching Internet databases with clumsy key word searches, we'll simply ask them questions the way we would another person. "Ninety percent of the code in software will be used for speaking, listening, recognizing handwriting and understanding linguistics," Gates said. Another thing: That "paperless office" that Xerox Corp. promised a decade ago -- it's still coming, Gates promised. As an exercise, he recently asked to see all of the paper forms that Microsoft now uses -- and got a huge pile on his desk. He combed through them and demanded to know why they were necessary. Almost immediately, a number of them were retired. And, "Within a year," he predicted, "we'll be able to get rid of virtually all of them." Gates urged the CEOs not to wait a decade to begin transforming their organizations. He called computer networks their "digital nervous systems," and said they've got to be healthy to serve the corporate body politic, rather than bog it down. He said it's the key to being able to respond quickly to new opportunities and to sudden reversals of fortune. And he even used his own company's missteps as proof of what advanced technology can do for organizations. Remember two years ago, when Microsoft seemed hopelessly behind on the Internet? It was. But 18 months ago, a flurry of E-mail messages between Gates and his lieutenants set off alarm bells. "It came to a fever pitch and was recognized as a crisis," said Gates. And, within a 45-day period, a new product and pricing strategy was launched. "That wouldn't have happened if we had a tired nervous system," he said. Gates sees some tough challenges ahead for the PC industry. First, it has to improve manageability of computer systems and reduce customers' administration costs. Without naming it, he pointed to Microsoft's and Intel Corp.'s efforts to create a NetPC that's simpler and cheaper to use, but more flexible and powerful than a mainframe terminal. "We don't want a solution that gives us manageability but un-empowers the individual," said. The other key challenge is "scalability" -- making PCs that are as powerful as the mainframes and Unix-based computers they seek to replace in giant corporations. He predicted that within a year, PC clustering technologies will allow PCs to match mainframes' ability to perform the most demanding computational tasks. He ended by calling upon CEOs to give their employees not just the latest in computing tools, but access to vital corporate information that might have been kept secret in the past. "Information workers aren't cogs in an industrial process," he said. "When you let them see corporate information, you empower them," he said.
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Opisi nekih novih termima koji se mogu čuti u kompjuterskoj periodici. Najbolji su dribbleware i SMOP. :) PCification was used to describe what's happening in the networking business: It's going through "PCification." In most cases, it's hard to pinpoint the origin of a buzzword, but there's no doubt about the source of this one. It was used by Bay Networks President David House in presentations at last month's NetWorld+Interop trade show, in Las Vegas. What adoption of the IBM PC architecture did for personal computers, he said, adoption of TCP/IP is doing for networking. Proprietization was another unusual word used by House in the same presentation. One of the results of the PCification of networking, he said, is resistance to proprietization on the part of companies buying technologies. Dribbleware is the tendency of vendors to release versions of their software nonstop. This is one of the best new types of ware since slideware, which is used to describe products or features that exist only on slides used in vendor presentations. Information superhighway robbery is what can happen if you're not careful on the Internet. Perpetrators can be everything from stock swindlers to Internet service providers looking to make a killing on fees to Web-site developers able to overcharge because they're selling to people who don't know what the work is worth. Green-field opportunities is used to describe promising markets that no company dominates, such as China. This is most commonly used to explain why it's realistic for technology companies to continue to count on high growth rates. SMOP means simply a matter of programming. It is commonly used in communicating with non-IS people in your business. Explain that once they adequately describe the problem that the proposed project is designed to solve, the rest is SMOP.
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Microsoft-ovi zvaničnici tvrde da se u narednim godinama ne mogu očekivati finansijski uspesi koji su zabeležni u poslednje vreme. Da bi se ovaj trend nastavio morao bi izvršiti značajniji prodor u velike kompanije što se pokazalo da nije ni malo lako. Najveći problemi koje navodi podpredsednik MS-a su veće poverenje velikih kompanija u tradicionalne solution-providere poput IBM i Oracle-a, zatim velika preinstalirana baza DOS i Windows 3.1 mašina koje je teško migrirati ka novim platformama (na način na koji to MS radi, dodao bih), očekivani prodor Network Computer-a koji će uticati na smanjenje prodaje PC-jeva, velika preinstalirana baza Unix i Netware rešenja u velikim kompanijama i nedostatak skalabilnosti NT-a da ih zameni, kao i velika popularnost Lotus Notes-a koji je i prošle godine duplirao broj korisnika. Microsoft asks market to get real about its prospects SEATTLE -- Poor Microsoft, its stock price is too rich. That was the underlying theme here Thursday at a day-long presentation for financial analysts that took pains to point out the challenges facing the stock market darling. After a series of presentations on the company's product plans, a small parade of senior executives nearly begged the financial community to believe them when they say Microsoft's past patterns of growth and revenue generation probably won't continue. "There are a lot of challenges at Microsoft, and not everyone is seeing them," said Steve Ballmer, executive vice president. "There will be a lot of variability in revenues for next year, let alone the next couple of years." New CFO Greg Maffei concurred: "We're virtually sure" that the new fiscal year will not be as good as fiscal 1997, he said, due to a slow-down in the growth rate of Windows NT Server and belief that upgrades to Windows 98 won't match that of adoption of Windows 95. Outgoing CFO Mike Brown even went as far as to don bullfighter garb when he approached the podium at the Washington State Convention Center here before 300 press and analysts. His intent was clearly aimed at allaying the stampede of buying that has raised Microsoft's stock price some 80 percent since the beginning of the calendar year. The company is now valued at more than $180 billion, second only to General Electric, on less than $14 billion in annual revenues. Usually one of Microsoft's chief boosters, Ballmer was uncharacteristic Thursday when he listed a series of challenges facing Microsoft: - Microsoft sells to far fewer large corporate accounts than such competitors as IBM and Oracle, which have some 10,000 such accounts worldwide compared to Microsoft's 2,500 large accounts. - The 16-bit installed base of DOS and Windows 3.1 platforms forms a liability for Microsoft by delaying sales of new 32-bit operating system software, and requiring backward compatibility features. - A number of large pilot programs for the network computer could prove a harbinger of significant NC deployments that cut into the growth of PC sales and upgrades. - Unix and NetWare server operating systems remain entrenched in large organizations amid lingering doubts about BackOffice's and Windows NT Server's salability and reliability. - Lotus Notes remains popular and has attracted a large developer community that has populated enterprises with many server-based applications. "NT Server has done well, but our server applications are lagging," amounting to about 10 percent of overall revenues of server-based applications, Ballmer said. "We are still way, way behind in server applications." Microsoft remains by far a PC company that wants to be an enterprise computing company that supplies "digital nervous systems" to the world's largest corporations. "By far the thing we are most sensitive to is PC growth," Ballmer said. And there are signs that PC growth will be slowing in the coming year in most markets except Japan, he said. Microsoft also announced this week that it will increase spending in the next few months on marketing and sales, cutting into the company's current 45 percent net profit margin. Microsoft will also further increase spending on research and development, beyond the increase in spending from the past fiscal year by a factor of 3.2 times. Moreover, Microsoft will be spending more to promote its Exchange products and to continue to augment its support services. More funds will be devoted to significantly beef up groups and programs that target developers in order to woo them to Windows platforms and Component Object Model as a distributed applications architecture, said Ballmer. The bottom line from the executives was that Microsoft intends to take on its competitors and grow into the largest global accounts, even as its ability to quickly grow as a PC vendor diminishes. They said such a transition will take some years and that Microsoft's ability to grow in the meantime will suffer.