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- Figuring the value of software
- Phil Wainewright's discussion about the cost of running highly scalable SaaS applications like SuccessFactors comes at the right time. He says: Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, SuccessFactors Inc., SAP AG, Phil Wainewright, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Was Windows 7 totally your idea?
- W7: Whose ideas?It is pretty clear that Apple and Microsoft "borrow" from each other. I don't think that's a problem, all competitors "borrow" each others' ideas and the consumer wins.What is clear, though, is that Microsoft did listen to alot of people but it wasn't those people that use...
- Tags: Desktops, Crispin, Microsoft Corp., PC, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Are today's new iMacs and Minis game-changers?
- It's been a logn time since Apple was ...... competitive at these retail price points but that day may finally have come! Good for Apple and good for the rest of us. Still, EdTech has always enjoyed extremely aggressive enterprise-level discounts from the top tier of PC vendors...
- Tags: Keyboards, Mice, Desktops, Apple Inc., keyboard, mouse, Apple iMac
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- VMware facing challengers on all sides
- VMware is the defacto standard...Let me guess, MS with Windows Hyper-V is goingto conquer VMware now......More dribble from the Ad campaign headquartersfor Windows.already has here.....We tested both Vmware and Hyper-v and they both worked great, but with what we wanted to do the cost of vmware was too much to...
- Tags: Virtualization, VMware Inc., challenger
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
- Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...
- Tags: Solution, BPO, Outsourcing Company, Customer, BPO Deal, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Smartphones: Is image really everything?
- If you want to conquer the smartphone market there's a clear recipe to follow. Be smart, add a lot of hip and cool and stir in productivity. Bake in some marketing buzz and you can hold pricing and become a signature smartphone. That's the big takeaway from...
- Tags: Phone, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- HP to Cut Loose its BPO operations?
- Why sell what you just bought? A recent Channel Insider article raised the concern that HP might sell off or shutter some of its outsourcing business. Specifically, the article speculated on the BPO operations that EDS brought into the firm as part of HP’s acquisition of EDS....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., BPO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-07
- Report: Netbooks now one-fifth of portable PC shipments
- The point of netbooksis that they are cheap, portable second computers. More expensive portable computers may sell and they may sell well, but they are not competing with the same market. Customers would only want to drop more money for a portable computer if it were going to be their...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- Court lifts FCC limits on cable ownership
- Here come even HIGHER prices ....and thousands of channels of mediocrity.Look at satellite radio - unlimited channels of the same old same old !Satellite RadioActually when it first started and there was competing services ala XM and Sirius satellite radio was cheap, $9.99XM and $12.99 Sirius - both worked out...
- Tags: Network technology, Satellite radio, cable, satellite, cable ownership, FCC
- Discussion threads 2009-08-31
- The! meaning! of! bing!
- they're all dyingcan three men dying in a boat save one another, well I guess cannibalism could work.HP: has cut their printer line so much that I have to wait a month to get a printer shipped direct from themIntel: actually the strongest of the bunch, but your right their...
- Tags: Backups, PRODUCTIVITY, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-08
- Ballmer: Ultra-thin PCs will be the answer to netbooks
- Ballmer: Ultra-thin PCs will be the answer to netbooksThe never ending quest to charge more for a commodity product ntntI am already using an ultra-thin PC, the Toshiba R600.Ultra-thin computers have been out for a decade. People buy netbooks not only for the size but also for the price. Honestly,...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, R600, netbook, Ultra-thin PC, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2009-07-30
- Do hardware startups have a better shot at success?
- Entrepreneurs shouldn't shy away from hardware if they are looking to succeed. That contrarian view---many startups would naturally gravitate to the Web and software---was argued well by Gadi Amit, founder and principal designer of NewDealDesign. Writing over at Venture Beat, Amit makes the following case: ...
- Tags: Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Another view on Red Hat's Virtualization Portfolio
- Red Hat just trumpeted that its Virtualization Portfolio was just about cooked and ready to serve. While that announcement see Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Beta Draws Industry Interest did gather some industry comment, including that made by my colleage Paula Rooney (see Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta...
- Tags: Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., Open Source, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Microsoft sets maximum hardware spec for netbook-only Windows 7 SKUs
- Microsoft sets maximum hardware spec for netbook-only Windows 7 SKUsRidged for her pleasure?[i]with a more ridged CPU requirements.[/i]Sorry, couldn't resist. :)[i]RAM: 2GB.Currently the limitation is 1GB.[/i]Ah, that explains why I could get the Dell Mini 9 with 2GB of RAM if I chose Linux but not if I chose Windows....
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, netbook, Microsoft Corp., hardware, hardware spec, maximum hardware spec, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-05-25
- Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist
- From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.
- How to end the Fail Whales? With Blue Whales.Scary link about the Scala language interview you providedThat sure doesn't instill confidence. All this talk about using a languange "you are passionate about" blew me way.You have a service here that is failing miserably in terms of performance, and these jokers...
- Tags: C/C++, Firewalls, Programming languages, Blue Whales, Fail Whales
- Discussion threads 2009-04-11
- How vulnerable are the iPhone and BlackBerry juggernauts? Very.
- How vulnerable are the iPhone and BlackBerry juggernauts? Very.My question is about the Palm PreI've heard that you can't access the Graphics subsystem through the SDK. Does this mean that there'll be no games at all, or will all of the games be flash based?bad analysis"Commodity market. And commodity markets...
- Tags: Handhelds, Digital media, Digital music, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry juggernaut
- Discussion threads 2009-04-02
- How vulnerable are the iPhone and BlackBerry juggernauts? Very.
- This week brings the CTIA wireless powwow and a bevy of new mostly smart phones. Palm's Pre is on the runway. HTC is launching new Google Android phones and ads to go with them. Nokia is paying attention to the U.S. again with a thin smartphone. And even Motorola has...
- Tags: U.S., Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Nokia Corp., Smart Phone, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Wireless, Pre, Smart Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- Open source is not charity
- Open source is not charityIt's the new economy.It used to be the software was the "end". In every application, there was a shrink wrapped offering that made money for the producer. Open source, however, is the "means to an end". The software is simply the commodity that allows...
- Tags: Open Source IS, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-03-11
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