A brave new IT world coming
By James Carbone -- Purchasing, 4/23/1998
By the year 2001, personal computers will be challenged by network computers, WebTV, and gaming consoles as the dominant Internet access device, according to International Data Corp. IDC also says that 80% of PCs shipped in 2001 will be priced under $1,500.The next five years will be a time of harrowing change in the information technology industry, says Frank Gens, IDC's, senior vice president of Internet research. He says there will be a massive 40-fold increase in the number of Web transactions and a four-fold increase in the number of users by 2002.
IDC pegs the worldwide market for Web commerce at $8 billion in 1997, reaching $333 billion by 2002. The number of wired users will jump from 82 million to 329 million in the same time frame.
Gens also predicts that Intel will introduce a non-Pentium chip line, and Microsoft will unveil a non-Windows operating system.
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