The next couple of years could offer cash-rich companies outstanding opportunities in the US computer leasing market in the US, Hesh Wiener reports from New York: with the IBM 4391, array disks and Summit all just over the horizon, each offering the prospect of a five-year payback, the scene is set fair for the next upturn in the market, but most US leasing companies are in poor shape to pick up the business likely to be on offer while adequately solvent, they don’t have the spare capital to invest in new equipment and face the bleak prospect of being reduced to spending most of their time managing their current assets – and that means that there should be a ready supply of hot-shot sales people looking for better opportunities with deep-pocketed newcomers.
