Computer Analyst
... Computer industry analysts have
predicted the revolution of computing for years, they are often wrong.
Predictions such as: there will only need
to be four computers in the entire United States because of their huge
operating cost and power; that
personal computers will mean the whole sale replacement of large scale
mainframe based computing; that the
Client Server Computing model will reduce the cost and the complexity of
computing; that IBM and Microsoft's
OS/2 operating system will be the dominate desktop operating system in the
nineties. These statements have been the reason for many unscheduled
career moves, usually by the people taking rather than those giving
advice...