Comments on: Disruptive Leaders: NComputing http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2008/10/27/disruptive-leader-of-the-month-ncomputing/ "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:25:04 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Tony Yang http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2008/10/27/disruptive-leader-of-the-month-ncomputing/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Tony Yang Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:25:39 +0000 http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/?p=343#comment-265 Great stuff. I worked for Intel in an emerging country(China) for 4+ years. I had found was that in order to target the next billion users, the device had to be affordable and networked. 100 miles outside of Beijing the annual household income drops to ~USD2,500/year. I tried to reduce the cost of PC through Beijing Municipal government subsidy and removed costly M$ OS with Linux OS. But still, the cost was over USD350/PC and the richness of application remains insufficient. However every family has at least one cellphone(cost under USD100)to stay connected. What is so good about a full featured PC for them anyway? NComputing might be able offer a viable alternative. ---- Tony Yang@Oracle Great stuff. I worked for Intel in an emerging country(China) for 4+ years. I had found was that in order to target the next billion users, the device had to be affordable and networked. 100 miles outside of Beijing the annual household income drops to ~USD2,500/year. I tried to reduce the cost of PC through Beijing Municipal government subsidy and removed costly M$ OS with Linux OS. But still, the cost was over USD350/PC and the richness of application remains insufficient. However every family has at least one cellphone(cost under USD100)to stay connected. What is so good about a full featured PC for them anyway? NComputing might be able offer a viable alternative. —- Tony Yang@Oracle

]]> By: Mike Lafferty http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2008/10/27/disruptive-leader-of-the-month-ncomputing/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Mike Lafferty Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:48:44 +0000 http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/?p=343#comment-110 @Mark: We all drink Kool-Aid(R)....just different flavors! @Mark: We all drink Kool-Aid(R)….just different flavors!

]]> By: Mark Beckford http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2008/10/27/disruptive-leader-of-the-month-ncomputing/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Mark Beckford Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:15:15 +0000 http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/?p=343#comment-103 @Matt: Great to see another Intel alum agreeing that is potentially a very new and disruptive thing for the PC business. Thanks for the comments. @Mike: "I’ll bet there is room in the future for lots of both." There certainly is in the near-term, especially for servers and beefy clients to power the client appliances. I hope the Kool-Aid is still tasty ... @Matt: Great to see another Intel alum agreeing that is potentially a very new and disruptive thing for the PC business. Thanks for the comments.

@Mike: “I’ll bet there is room in the future for lots of both.” There certainly is in the near-term, especially for servers and beefy clients to power the client appliances. I hope the Kool-Aid is still tasty …

]]> By: Mike Lafferty http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2008/10/27/disruptive-leader-of-the-month-ncomputing/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Mike Lafferty Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:59:58 +0000 http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/?p=343#comment-97 I'll bet there is room in the future for lots of both. I'm still a Kool-Aid chugger though! :-) I’ll bet there is room in the future for lots of both. I’m still a Kool-Aid chugger though! :-)

]]> By: Matt Nees http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2008/10/27/disruptive-leader-of-the-month-ncomputing/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Matt Nees Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:24:19 +0000 http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/?p=343#comment-95 nComputing's product sounds very promising. As I was also part of the Koolaid-drinking audience at Intel during the NetPC innovation, and marketed against it, it has since reared its head again. The last major project I performed while at Intel, was a competitive analysis of the new thin client wave along with the advent of virtualization. There was no more room for the speeds and feeds to drive applications and robustness. The application development space and continued advancement of broadband squashed the intel play that you need to have a rich client. Intel had to change its roadmap to develop low power CPUs and win OEM designs in the Thin Client space. Software used to drive the need for more PC power. Now the software applications are intelligent enough to do without the GHz. This is a very dangerous threat to traditional OEMs and CPU manufacturers. I agree with your editorial about the potential of nComputing and their disruptive model. nComputing’s product sounds very promising.
As I was also part of the Koolaid-drinking audience at Intel during the NetPC innovation, and marketed against it, it has since reared its head again. The last major project I performed while at Intel, was a competitive analysis of the new thin client wave along with the advent of virtualization. There was no more room for the speeds and feeds to drive applications and robustness. The application development space and continued advancement of broadband squashed the intel play that you need to have a rich client. Intel had to change its roadmap to develop low power CPUs and win OEM designs in the Thin Client space. Software used to drive the need for more PC power. Now the software applications are intelligent enough to do without the GHz. This is a very dangerous threat to traditional OEMs and CPU manufacturers.

I agree with your editorial about the potential of nComputing and their disruptive model.

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