Alea, Micro......just when I wanted to reply to Micro re: HP, I saw your post here. YES we´re talking about ENTERPRISE business and not (yet) consumer, and right now DELL is the first choice. I wouldn´t want Dell to concentrated on selling 500 bucks notes to consumers, just to regain #1 in volume. Remember all where the #1 from HP and the #3 from Acer (temporarily) came from: It was the low level-entry-consumer machine, high volume shippment not the expansion of their enterprise business.
I don´t care about the HP figures of their Pavilion series, nor do I care about Dells Inspiron, Dimension or vostro line. NOT YET! It´s the battle between HP DC line and Optiplex, HP XW and Precision and NC vs. Latitude, nothing more at this moment on the enterprise client side. What Dell tries to do is offering COMPLETE SOLUTIONS to enterprises, including security, not only shipping the clients and some servers. And there WE come in play, a security solutions developer which developed the SERVER and CLIENT sided software to manage the NEW security hardware called TPM and more fcollowing roots-of-trust like FDEs.
And YES HP has to look at this space SOON to hold their #1, since over the nex months aqnd years the net based services WILL DEMAND this kind of ATTESTATION to cooperate services....
NOW is the time to show the world WHO is the number ONE, when it comes to the new security paradigm TRUSTED WEB.
BR and best wished for you all
ISPRO
AI
