Hi Jas....
I´ll try to make a short summary of my conversation with Alexander.
Nobody knows how fast Waves will gain traction, cause our success depends on the traction of trusted computing (Like Gugi and me heard at Systems2005:"If the TCG succeeds, Wave will become a BIG company"). He made the point like some of our most value posters have often said before: Wave is the number ONE in this space and NOBODY has a similar product to manage this space. Infineon is known as a HUGE chip manufacturer all over Europe and in the world and Alexander has never heard a question of one of his customers concerning Infineon software. It´s not the question what to choose (Wave or Infineon), it´s the question WHY using TPMs. Like Steven stated in the last CC, customers have to be educated, that TPMS are the only answer to most of the security issues.
So the main hurdle is to show the customers the advantages of Trusted computing. Mr Köhler tells all his customers to buy TPM equipped machines to have the benefit of low cost security solutions (cheap TPM with basic Wave SW) NOW and to be able to upgrade at little costs. There are still two directions in security, as we can see through the INTEL product lines. The enterprise boards with TPMs and consumer line without TPMs.
Well I was really impressed of Alexanders technical knowledge and his ability to bring this knowledge to folks like me. His competence in this space and his mode of expression make him to one of the most valueable persons in TC in Europe and therefor he worked for companies like Utimaco and others.
We shouldn´t add too much value on this but his last sentence was that we´ll see many things in the next DAYS and WEEKS!
BR
ISPRO
