Said the new MD for EMEA at Honeywell: “We’re not going to throw this away because IP is round the corner.”
In announcing a wide range of integrated initiatives from the company Vineet Nargolwala said “Analogue is still growing but at a slower rate than IP. It has a long tail.”
And Simon Nash, senior European marketing manager at Sony Europe, was emphatic: “We are committed to analogue. To us it is as important as IP”.
The comments were made at press breakfasts where the emphasis was on the newest technologies. But it’s accepted that analogue will need maintenance and support for many years ahead, even if sales dwindle.
That’s probably reassuring to those installers who are reaching “maturity” and who have no real inclination to get involved with IP before they retire – unless their customers force them to.
