Larry Ellison on network appliances. (Oracle Chmn Larry Ellison predicts computer industry trends at the Fall Comdex) (Industry Trend or Event)

Soft-Letter, November, 1995

Oracle chairman Larry Ellison, whose company has created an operating system for inexpensive network devices that he predicts will be available in mid-1996, made these remarks during a panel at Fall Comdex:

"Suddenly, when networking becomes fast and cheap, we have to rethink the kind of devices we attach to these networks. If we think about ubiquity of networking, the way you'd build computers is very different from the way we build computers today. We've gotten to the point today, 15 years after the Microsoft personal computer was first manufactured and distributed by IBM [laughter], that we really have a mainframe on the desktop. We really have incredible power, and thousands of applications. The only problem is, that's not what I want [as a user]. I don't want...

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