In this environment, she has argued, Hewlett-Packard's best future will be to combine with Compaq to create a company that will be able to help corporate customers cope with the complexity of Internet-era computing by offering packages of hardware, software and services.
And its chances of dominating the touch era of computing the way it did the desktop era are slim.
But the security weaknesses in Microsoft products, it seems, stem mainly from the company's success as the leader of the PC era of computing.
This army of behind-the-scenes programmers will largely determine who the big software winners will be in this, the Internet era of computing.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 — Sun Microsystems and I.B.M. plan to introduce specialized high-end server systems on Thursday that provide fresh evidence of a new era in computing.
It was at one such meeting, in the fall of 1981, that the transition from the hobbyist era of computing to today's booming world of corporate computing took place -- though virtually no one in attendance realized the shift.
Slowly but surely we are entering another era of computing.
It's one more step towards cognitive computing, a new era of computing.
This is a fascinating field, in a quite fascinating era for computing.
It's basically saying that not only is the iPad winning, it is ushering in a new era of computing.
Of course, the payoff for them looks be huge if they lead this new era of computing.
