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IBM Returns to the Desktop Interface Bandwagon, and Coopetition with SAP Abounds

A little over a year ago, IBM tried one of its end runs around its partner SAP and announced a plan to provide Lotus Notes users with direct access to SAP's R/3. While clearly intended to capitalize on phenomena like Duet – the Microsoft/SAP offering that makes Office a front-end...

Tags: Desktop, IBM Lotus Notes, SAP AG, Coopetition, IBM Corp., Duet, Atlantic, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-01-21

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Citrix and Xen not versus Xen

Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix's Virtualization Management group, contacted me after reading the post, Citrix versus the Xen community, to clear up some misconceptions that he thought were the basis of my post. After reading his message, it's clear that what he had to say was very persuasive. Thanks Simon...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Citrix versus the Xen community

As the virtual machine software competition heats up, one would expect representatives of each of the suppliers to take shots at one another in the media. I've seen a recent example of this.Two of the proponents of Xen, Citrix and Virtual Iron, appear to be having at it in the...

Tags: Community, Citrix Systems Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Technology, Virtual Machine, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-15

News to know: Vista virtualization; OOXML; OpenOffice; Leopard developers; eBay

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules. Dan Farber: Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy Mary Jo Foley: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML? Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week David Morgenstern: Mac...

Tags: Developer, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility Computing, Notebooks, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-22

Partnering and competing with Microsoft: There's nothing new under the sun

The Microsoft-Cisco meeting of the CEO minds on August 20 was a total non-news event. Microsoft did not set false expectations about that. No one going into the event believed for a moment there would be anything of significance -- especially not a merger/acquisition involving the two players -- on...

Tags: Partnership, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-20

The Ballmer and Chambers show--no fireworks

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers are holding court with interviewer Charlie Rose in New York City, discussing how they view the market transition, Google, coopetition and industry cooperation. The two industry titans both view the market as in an early stage transition, with lots of...

Tags: John Chambers, Google Inc., Steve Ballmer, Industry, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-20

IBM expands support for Sun's Solaris 10

IBM and Sun today announced that day announced that IBM will distribute Solaris 10 and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers to clients through IBM's channels. The servers include IBM System x3650, System x3755, and System x3850 servers, and IBM BladeCenter HS21...

Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-16

eBay sends Google a message: The fallout will linger

Google plans a stupid marketing stunt at eBay Live. eBay pulls its ads on Google. Google flinches and cancels its stunt--designed to promote the use of Google Checkout on eBay. Now let's look beyond the initial headlines to the fallout. In the Google Checkout blog, Google's take was comical. eBay...

Tags: Web Technology, Search, Google, General, eBay

Blog posts 2007-06-14

Did Xandros sign a Novell-like patent deal with Microsoft?

Looks like there could be another Microsoft-Linux patent deal in the offing.eWEEK posted a story a few hours ago entitled "Microsoft Gives Xandros Linux Users Patent Protection." The story is now gone from the Web site.My best guess? There's some embargoed news coming some time in the next few hours....

Tags: Novell, Linux, Legal, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-06-03

Google showdown: Can Barry Diller win IAC search advertising war?

Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST! I said earlier this week.Barry Diller, King of the IAC search and advertising empire, does have royal designs of his own, nevertheless.CEO Diller has set in motion a series of initiatives within his integrated conglomerate of Web properties fueling an...

Tags: Search Advertising, Search, Google Ads, Google, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Google's big, bad risk

The real story in Yahoo’s feather in the cap multi-year exclusive sponsored search and contextual ads agreement with Viacom Web properties announced today? No, it is not that it is a $1 billion YouTube lawsuit slap in the face to Google, it is that it puts Google’s entire raison...

Tags: YouTube, Self-Promotion, Search Advertising, Search, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Google Ads, Google, Culture, Copyright, Content, Business Models, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-10

Google, LookSmart power Ask.com advertising

What are the some of the advantages of attending a Silicon Valley conference, such as Kelsey “Drilling Down on Local,” and then staying on in San Francisco for a few days?A ferry ride to Sausalito and seaside seafood lunch, a Sonoma wine country tasting tour…and first-hand looks at special advertising...

Tags: advertisement, Ask.com, Google Inc., LookSmart Ltd.

Blog posts 2007-03-27

Zucker & Chernin vs. YouTube: Sink or swim?

Is the soon to be launched “largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled,” doomed before it even sets video sail?After all, the who needs YouTube strategic alliance engenders coopetition risks between News Corporation and NBC Universal, the venture’s founding partners. What’s more, not only are the deal’s principals direct competitors,...

Tags: YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2007-03-22

Can Google handle search engine coopetition?

Can Google handle search engine coopetition?Google Search newsI decided to see how well Google had indexed it own site Google.com, lets see how Google didResults 1 - 10 of about 524,000 from www.google.com. (0.03 seconds)524,00 results, let me search the same on Live searchsite:http://www.google.comPage 1 of 927,115 resultsGoogle doesn't have...

Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc., search engine coopetition

Discussion threads 2007-03-17

Can Google handle search engine coopetition?

Google is the number one search engine, by far. Anyone that wants to be anything on the Web needs Google SEO and/or Google AdWords to accomplish its mission, even direct Google competitors! Primary Google rival Yahoo, owner of search engine number two, buys Google AdWords.Primary Google rival Microsoft, owner...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine

Blog posts 2007-03-17

SAP CEO Stays Put for the Right Reasons

Its easy to ponder what a German supervisory board is thinking from several thousand miles away, and more than one of my fellow bloggers has speculated that Henning Kagermanns tenure was extended mostly because there was no one to succeed him. Thats kind of a "glass-half-empty" view of the situation,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-15

Red Hat to up the virtualization price war ante

Red Hat plans to squeeze VMware on pricing as it bundles virtualization technology with its operating system. Thats the biggest takeaway from Scott Crenshaw, General Manager, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Crenshaw spoke about virtualization on a conference call Tuesday afternoon with...

Tags: General, Linux, Open Source, Red Hat, virtualization, VMware

Blog posts 2007-02-14

This Microsoft-Novell partnership's not all it's cracked up to be

You know a partnership isnt all its cracked up to be when the parties involved need to spend more time explaining and defending themselves than actually delivering on what was promised. Case in point: The Microsoft-Novell technological agreement, announced with much fanfare on November 2. Its now November 21,...

Tags: Windows client, Windows server, Corporate strategy, Legal

Blog posts 2006-11-21

Google's latest moves also put the pressure on Apple

The Google packaging of SOHO/SMB services and applications I've been hankering for is finally getting more organized. Yet everyone seems to be positioning this as only an anti-MS Office play. But what about Apple and iWork, not to mention OS X and .mac?I don't think this is really a threat...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-28

Need for SOA governance spurs another buy as BEA acquires Flashline

BEA Systems today snatched up SOA governance provider Flashline in a move that in one part expands BEA's SOA capabilities but in another smacks of a quick reaction to HP's buy of Mercury/Systinet.BEA uses the Systinet UDDI registry within its AquaLogic-branded registry. But BEA must have seen the writing on...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., SOA

Blog posts 2006-08-23