Rob Enderle Component Quotations

When a market is this tightly fought, any price drop in a component results in an immediate drop in hardware price.

Few things could have done more damage to the 2006 PC market then the slip of Windows Vista. This will have an adverse impact on a broad cross section of components and platform PC suppliers who depend on the 4th quarter to make their numbers. The big issue is consumers typically do not wait to buy, and will chose to buy something else and now wait until later in 2007 to purchase their computers.

This Unix component is working against them. It's basically Unix with an Apple front end, but from the administrators' point of view, all they see is Unix.