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- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands
- The iPhone maker languishes in 24th place in the Best Global Brands 2008 survey, while tech companies including Microsoft and Google chase the No. 1 brand, Coke. Apple may currently be king of consumer gadgets but the company is failing to hit similar heights in a list of the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Brand, Interbrand, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., iPhone Maker, Branding, Marketing, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, brands, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Google
- News items 2008-09-22
- FCC slams Comcast but too little too late?
- The FCC formally voted to censure Comcast over torrent-blocking today. And the decision has stirred up plenty of controversry. The LA Times' Jim Puzzanghera called the decision a "warning shot to all Internet service providers that it would not tolerate discriminatory behavior." There will be no fine...
- Tags: FCC, Network, Comcast Corp., Network Management, LA Times, Internet, Federal Government, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Administration, Networking, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Observations: what's moving the SOA market these days
- I just had the chance to catch up with MomentumSI's Jeff Schneider while he was up in the Princeton, NJ, area. MomentumSI does a lot of consulting and integration work for SOA projects in organizations across the country, so Jeff's practice is a good bellwether for what's on the minds...
- Tags: SOA, Jeff Schneider, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-06-08
- New SAS Performance Optimizations to Enhance Your SAS Client and Solution Access to the Database
- The SQL procedure has been used for years as the way many SAS clients and solutions query for their data. Examine the new SQL performance optimizations that have been added to this bellwether procedure, optimizations designed to greatly expand query pass-through capability to databases and shorten the SAS client and...
- Tags: Database, Microsoft Access, Performance, Optimization, SAS Institute, SQL, SQL Procedure
- White papers 2008-02-27
- Is Apple a barometer of the consumer economy?
- During the investor conference call over Apple's December fiscal first quarter conference, analysts kept pressing executives about whether the Cupertino company is the bellwether for the consumer spending. But Apple's value proposition is different than the rest of the industry and so is its customer base, making it tough to...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Digital Equipment Corp., Sales Strategy, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Microsoft unviels its 'Internet Service Bus'
- More indications that Microsoft is getting serious about SOA:Chris Kanaracus of Redmond Developer News has brought to light some very interesting activity coming out of Microsoft regarding delivery of the SOA paradigm. Namely, Microsoft is planning to deliver enterprise service bus functions on a Software as a Service model.Now, there's...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, General
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- How will open source do in a talent-short age?
- How will open source do in a talent-short age?EpsDelYou forget that open source did not begin as a commercial project, but from the desire to create the best software out there (at least FSF's software).So, even if I were to work in a closed-source environment, I'd spend my spare time...
- Tags: Workforce management, Tools & Techniques, talent, open source, software
- Discussion threads 2007-07-05
- Microsoft inks Linspire: Is Red Hat next?
- Microsoft inked its third Linux interoperability deal as the third version of General Public License nears the finish line. Will Red Hat fall in line soon?Microsoft today announced an interoperability deal with Linspire and the pact reads roughly like the one it has with Xandros. As we all know Microsoft...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Open Source, Novell, Microsoft, Linux, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Has the long-expected wave of cyber crime/warfare finally appeared?
- Reports in The Economist, New York Times, and PC World point to a stunning lurch in the sophistication and reach of recent nefarious online attacks. And the initial sniff test pulls up a whiff of state or large-scale organization sponsorship and support of these events.They may well be a bellwether...
- Tags: Akamai, content delivery network, Internet, Podcasts, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Would you give up wireless services to save the bees? How about to save money?
- Something strange is happening to honey bees. They seem to be getting lost while they are away from their hives, leaving queen bees and immature workers alone, without food, in a syndrome called "Colony Collapse Disorder." The thing is, these insects are the ultimate in social producers, pollinating plants and...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Trouble in Vista paradise? Large software vendor warns of major compatibility problems and burdensome remedies
- Trouble in Vista paradise? Large software vendor warns of major compatibility problems and burdensome remediesSimple solutionAll of Intuit's customers can switch to Microsoft's products.This kind of thing happens every few years, and after a while Intuit will figure out how to make their stuff MSVista-only for what customers they have...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Intuit QuickBooks, Intuit Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-25
- Hotel's communications-services portal produces beneficial unintended consequences
- I took a briefing today with BlueNote Networks on a new customer win that sheds some interesting light on the beneficial unintended consequences of integrating communications, PBXs, Web applications and back-end applications using web services and SOA.The Seaport Hotel in Boston is using the BlueNote Networks SessionSuite product to provide...
- Tags: Web Technology, Mobile, SOA, Web Services, Virtualization, Internet, convergence, VOIP
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- The importance of Solaris 10
- The importance of Solaris 10Plan 9 from Outer SpaceBefore its death, Solaris was a sales point for Sun's hardware. After its death, Solaris is useful to its prior users without being of advantage to others because of widespread adoption.Sun did draw inspiration from Ed Wood. With Jonathon Schwartz...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Sun Solaris 10, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Plan 9
- Discussion threads 2006-10-06
- Trade show bellwether: looking up
- I just heard that InfoWorld/IDG, which is sponsoring the SOA Executive Forum to be held this coming Tuesday in New York, is expanding the venue's capacity to accommodate additional attendees.Good news for IDG, of course, but it also suggests our IT economy is really picking up steam. I always...
- Tags: attendance
- Blog posts 2005-05-13
- Better living--and smarter rats--through chemistry: a look at nanotechnology progress
- Unraveling the hype from the promise of nanotechnology isn’t an easy task. The IPO withdrawal by nanotech bellwether Nanosys last August did a lot to remind us that it will take years, or even a decade or more, before the fledgling industry becomes a major engine of growth. While the road...
- Tags: nanotechnology
- Blog posts 2004-11-10
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In this Super Techies interview, larger-than-life techie Marc Canter talks with ZDNet's Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a multimedia pioneer.
We need to get back to freethinking and innovation that is core to our roots. Companies like Intel were founded on thoughts like the famous quote from Robert Noyce - "Don't be encumbered by the past, go out and do something wonderful."
