Looking at IDC and Gartner it’s apparent the challenge that is faced by those IT Suppliers who are going to be supporting Vista. It’s not so much as of a challenge as the reality of new technology launches. No matter how much Microsoft and we as partners want to accelerate the adoption of Vista/Office 2007, I think IDC sums it up and here is a link to the document
The 2007 launch of Windows Vista will be an important event, but at this time, we do not see that product causing a significant short- or long-term acceleration of sales of Windows client products.
So, what do we do? Well, I guess the trick is to find those gems who want to be early adopters and get ahead of the adoption curve. The thing that will drive some decisions will be the purchase of new hardware as this is often the easiest way to introduce a new OS.
Gartner are saying that most organisations will be deploying in 2008 having taken a 12-18 month planning phase. Read the document below.
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November 7th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
[...] I’ve thought about this quite a bit and my conclusions are that this is a generic issue to do with new technology launches. The vendor always tries to convince us that we must upgrade or buy their latest offering and what why not? They’ve spent many years investing in it and bringing it to market and they believe in it. However, the end user is always sceptical and only the limited “early adopters” are going to get onboard. The mass adoption is going to come somewhere down the line (Gartner have attempted to quantify this and I blogged about this in a previous post). The situation is even more bleak if you read Susanne’s other post, which has an article on how thinking about IT strategically is a fallacy and it’s just a cost of doing business. [...]
November 13th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Vista and Office for Small Businesses - replying to Susanne’s and Vijay’s blogs…
Wow, I go on holiday, spend some time catching up on e-mail, and what do I find ” There’s a whiff of…