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- Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac prices
- RE: Smartplanet: Apple can grab more share by slashing Mac pricesIf they wanted marketshare at a lower entry price they could have pulled that off years ago with cloner acquisitions and more mfg on their own part with rigid standards and practices to ensure quality and lower production costs. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Verizon preps fourth quarter device barrage; Droid will 'stimulate demand'
- Verizon delivered a solid third quarter courtesy of its wireless business, which added 1.2 million net customers excluding acquisitions. The company also said it is set up for the fourth quarter with the launch of Research in Motion's Storm 2 on Wednesday, two Motorola Android devices and 12 other handsets....
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- The maintenance renewal landscape
- Been doing this for years.Work for a non-profit, so unless its mission critical or has a high cost of replacement... its not going to get renewed.I think everyone should live by this rule. If they did, software maintenance would be much cheaper!SAP, Oracle very Different on Dependence on MaintenanceI'll...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Oracle's big plan: Double revenue in five years
- Oracle capped off its OpenWorld conference with a powwow with analysts where management was described as extremely confident about the company's prospects. Although I'm not sure you could ever describe Oracle management as timid---does Larry Ellison allow that?---analyst notes seem to portray executives as exceedingly confident. Judging...
- Blog posts 2009-10-16
- What we may/may not hear @ Oracle Open World this week
- Fusion is the Mirror and Unveiling of Oracle Customer ContemptOracle has punted on delivering integration as a product:IF you consider the definition of integration to be 'supplied as a buyable product and supported by the vendor.' Oracle's definition seems to be integration the same way that Facebook and YouTube are...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Cisco goes shopping (again) scoops up Starent
- Updated: Cisco said it will buy Starent Networks in a deal valued at $2.9 billion. The move comes shortly after Cisco bought Tandberg. Starent provides mobile Internet Protocol IP gear. Cisco will use Starent's equipment to better target carriers, which are increasingly relying on wireless units to...
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Oracle's integration strategy: Customer trade-offs
- We Already Thought The Stuff From One Vendor Was IntegratedI'm simply blown away that no one is pointing out that many buyers thought that, when they bought EBS, for example, they were already getting a VERY high degree of true integration across all the applications. Same for PeopleSoft customers....
- Discussion threads 2009-10-13
- Two Perspectives of the HR Technology show
- Some positive surprises - strong attendance Last week, Dr. Katherine Jones and I attended the HR Technology show. Katherine is one the best known HR analysts out there and covered the space for Aberdeen Group for a number of years. Together, we sat down with 21...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone
- I agreeI think its funny so many people get mad at their smartphone companies and providers for not making Flash for the phone when A) It is Adobe's responsibility to do that and B) All the security issues you pointed out. I'm not worried about flash on my phone...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- TD Bank botches IT system consolidation; Customer havoc ensues
- If you're a TD Bank customer and your balances are a mess here's the reason: IT issues are wreaking havoc on the bank. TD Bank, formerly Commerce Bank, told customers that balances, credits and debits may be inaccurate due to computer glitches. The problems...
- Blog posts 2009-10-02
- Newegg announces IPO, plans for expansion
- Online electronics retailer Newegg is going public, launching an IPO estimated at $175 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. The retailer has largely been focused on IT products such as hardware, software and peripherals since its launch in 2001 but recently...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Dell and Perot: What this means
- Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Should Apple buy Sonos?
- I hope notI want Steve Jobs controlling all my consumer electronics gear EVEN LESS than I want Bill Gates controlling all my computers!Sure, I'd like much more creativity and interconnectedness in the CE world, but not that the cost to be exacted by ol' Steve.No to SonosApple already has products...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- HP Software CTO: Virtualization and cloud sourcing sprawl likely
- HP Software sees a lot of sprawl on the horizon with virtualization and cloud computing. Those are the two primary key takeaways from my conversation with Jamie Erbes, Chief Technology Officer for HP Software & Solutions. Erbes right has an interesting track record. She arrived at HP...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- The Adobe-Omniture deal: Does it make sense?
- Adobe & Omniture makes senseOmniture currently have components for Adobe's Dreamweaver and Flash, to integrate analytics into web content and last time I used them, they really weren't that great. I imagine in Adobe's CS5 this integration will be very seamless, which will encourage Adobe's users to use Omniture over...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'
- good moveI did not know tha Adobe has so much cash on hand.This will sped up the demise of M$.RE: Adobe to acquire Ominture; CEO calls move a 'game-changer'Great! Didn't Adobe learn anything from ebay's skype debacle? Non-core or non-organic growth acquisitions signal only one thing to me - that...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-15
- Intuit's reported purchase of Mint: A fine defensive move
- NervousIntuit never merged their online product and their excellent Paytrust product, and now they are likely to screw up mint, which I liked as well. This does not bode well.I dislike having my financial info on the web.Must just be me, since all those Mint users don't seem concerned. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Afterburner 1.0 Beta (Windows)
- The Deadlock Detection feature alerts the running application when a deadlock is detected by throwing an exception describing the complete cycle of threads and monitor objects participating in the deadlock with all the relevant call stacks. This information should be sufficient to understand the nature of the encountered deadlock in...
- Software downloads 2009-09-06
- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
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