What the Top People in IT want for Christmas
Knowing the IT industry, we at Auridian
have taken a guess at what the industry’s top players will list on their
letters to Santa. If any of their presents seem bizarre please call us on +44
1494 728 000.
Bill Gates – Microsoft
Wants:
q A compelling reason for people to buy Office 2003
q A virus for Linux
q Google
q Symbian
q To dominate the enterprise application marketplace
q Siebel
q Security to be a non-issue in 2004
Scott McNealy – Sun Microsystems
Wants:
q A strategy
q A dam to be placed in the path of Microsoft’s revenue streams
q Open Office on every desk.
Larry Ellison – Oracle
Wants:
q A Voodoo doll with brown hair and geeky glasses
q PeopleSoft
q To be the richest man in the world
q A large pin.
Jack Messman – Novell
Wants:
q Revenge.
Michael Dell – Dell
Wants:
q To dominate the IT industry
q To merge with Ikea to sell flat pack ‘no post sales support’ PCs
Darl McBride – SCO Group
Wants:
q A marketing department
q A slap
q Some friends.
Craig Barrett – Intel
Wants:
q Cables to be a health hazard.
Sam Palmisano - IBM
Wants:
q To run your business
q You to understand IBM’s adverts
q Novell to do well
q To plumb IT capacity into every building in the world.
John Chambers – Cisco
Wants:
q The market to develop a craving for phone-shaped routers
q To be right this time about the health of the market.
Joe W. Forehand– Accenture
Wants:
q To convince its management consultants that being a DBA or system
administrator is a natural career move
q Failing that, wants to charge out support staff at £3k pr day.
Carly Fiorina – HP
Wants:
q HP to be the next IBM
q Wants a new sales force, ideally Deloitte Consulting.
Michael Johnson – EDS
Wants:
q A new bank manager
q Wants to run your government.
Henning Kagermann - Sap
Wants:
q A weak euro
q To see the ‘dialogue’ between Oracle and PeopleSoft continue.
Christmas Gift
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All prices exclude VAT and expenses. Places
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2004 and December 2004. The booking
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