🚀 go-pugleaf

Regardless of the arguments for and against the economic value of the
Personal Workstation (PW), the numbers are beginning to tell.  I work
for Alanthus Data Communications and we market the Convergent
Technologies system to end users.  Our marketing strategy is to point
out how the system provides OA, communications, and user
programmability in one box.

The response is overwhelming!  The average configuration seems to be
going out at about $20,000 including software.  Granted, at this point
in time people are buying development systems, but the availablity of
OA software (WP, mail, etc.) has been a driving point in almost every 
sale.

Obviously people believe in the PW concept and the market is still
growing.  Since people rarely exhibit rational behavior (except in a
negative [fiscal] sense), I don't expect rational decisions either way
on the subject.  We all realize that OA and PWs are coming and noone
is going to stop it.

Since we all tend to be in areas of development for OA products, let
us now discuss what the needs of the user really are.  Perhaps we can
decide what Office Automation and Personal Workstation really means.

Brian