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- Dot-com Bust
- Refers to the years 2000 to 2002, when the bottom fell out of the dot-com industry and hundreds of dot-com companies went bankrupt. All the rest lost a huge...
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- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem
- Betting on the future: T2 vs. Nehalem"...but losing everything is like the sun going down on me...Ahhh what a great song...Ok Rudy.Sure IBM can't compete with Sun what with their stock about $100 more per share.My advise is DON'T WAIT! SGI and Sun took a beating from Linux because they...
- Tags: Network technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Nehalem, T2
- Discussion threads 2009-04-04
- Open source and the shrinking waterhole
- Despite a lot of brave talk at OSBC there is little doubt that open source is heading into its first recession. (If you want to explain a recession to your four-year old, here's one way.) During the last bust, what I call the dot-bomb,...
- Tags: Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Will open source be a victim in the Dot Bomb 2.0?
- In some ways Dot Bomb 2.0 has already begun. Google is down 27% since the start of the year. Once solid niches like consumer health are starting to falter. As Time-Warner set off Dot Bomb 1.0 by acquiring AOL, putting a cap on potential...
- Tags: Google Inc., Applied Materials Inc., E-business, Web Technology, Open Source, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- What is an open source company really worth?
- The correct answer is whatever someone will pay for it. (This cute business shark lives at Hyde Valuations, an appraisal company in Idaho.) Certainly a home worth $500,000 last year is worth less now. Certainly a stock worth $100/share last week is worth less now. ...
- Tags: Stock, Investment, Open Source, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Open source parties like it's 1999
- Like 1984, 1999 is a once unimaginable future which now evokes a specific nostalgia. For the former, blame George Orwell. For the latter, blame open source hero Prince Rogers Nelson. Remember that kerfluffle about Prince changing his name to this ridiculous symbol in 1993,...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., New York Times Co., Web 2.0, Open Source, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Is that a bomb in your pants or are you just happy to be flying (or flying to be happy)?
- By way of Bruce Schneier's blog comes ZUG editor in chief John Hargrave who used to be the official resident DOT COMedian here at ZDNet. In addition to being a funny guy, Hargrave was every bit the early adopter of technology while here at ZDNet. He played host to one...
- Tags: Hargrave, John Hargrave
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- Sun CEO will announce thousands of layoffs this Thursday
- Sun Microsystems SUNW will announce on Thursday a large round of layoffs in a bid to cut about one-half billion dollars in annual costs as it transforms itself into a broad based computer software and services company. Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, will make the announcement to staff and investors,...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-20
- The problem at Sun isn't at the top
- The problem at Sun isn't at the topPoised for the future?Didn't Sun suffer enough damage from the bankruptcy of a large portion of their clientele and consequent resale of equipment at low prices? Why bring in other, controversial factors? (Controversial means wrong but not yet disputed.)The best description...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Sun pricing, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-04-17
- The problem at Sun isn't at the top
- Last week's Economist devoted a full page to a thinly veiled personal attack on Scott McNealy. As usual in cases like this the author is full of absolute certainties: during the dotcom boom of the late 1990s, Sun was the preferred maker of the...
- Tags: Linux, Sun Solaris, Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Processors, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mr McNealy
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- Tales of an Apple/Sun merger
- Tales of an Apple/Sun mergerWhat will the "phone" be in the futureThe WiMAX Steamroller if the mobile spec is ever rescued from being held hostage by the IEEE, will generate WiMAX handhelds in the near future (2 years). I hope Apple is seeing this and doesn't do something stupid like...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Telecom & Utilities, McNeally, WiMAX, Apple Inc., Sun merger, Sun Microsystems Inc., merger
- Discussion threads 2006-01-12
- Excite@Home's 119 domain names up for sale
- Excite@Home's 119 domain names up for saleBillions for nothingAt least AOL bought a REAL company with its dot-bomb billions. Excite was a TOTAL bust.
- Tags: Domain names, Excite@Home, domain name
- Discussion threads 2005-08-10
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