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- An individual who follows the computer industry and writes about ongoing topics and trends. Analysts are made up of individuals in the trade press as well as in market...
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- IT leader's guide to working with industry analysts
- Working with industry analysts is more complicated than most IT pros expect. The hard part is putting a process in place to ensure that you are getting the most out of your deal by educating your organization about how they can use the analyst data to make better decisions.
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- Microsoft to raise prices, add more high-end editions with SQL Server 2008 R2
- More likely to ship with Visual Studio 2010?Is it not more likley that SQL 2008 R2 will ship with Visual Studio 2010 as it has done with previous releases? I understand VS2010 is likely to be available in March (Mix 2010?). In this way, SQL is likely to be...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, Palm
- To Stay in Business,eventually they will turn to Android.The SAME WAY did HTC and MOTOROLA.and IT will not Take Long!RE: Analyst: Big on Motorola, Android; no love for RIM, PalmRIM forever!droid is cool, but read the comments on the original article.this guy is probably waaaay off.IT Analysts are kind of...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Gartner Magic Quadrant lawsuit: Sour grapes or real gripes?
- Industry analyst firm, Gartner, is the target of a lawsuit from a software vendor challenging the "legitimacy" of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant rating system. The suit has brought forth an array of divergent opinions. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- SaaS: Shelfware as a service?
- Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Persona Non GartnerOver the years, I've watched, participated in researching and experienced the results of the positing of Gartner's disclosures. My analysis is as follows:On any given subject at any given time, there is a .90 probability that the opinions expressed by Gartner will be either flat out wrong or...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Art of the software deal can get messy
- Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Google's third quarter: Expectations are high
- Google's third quarter is expected to be strong and analysts are already busy raising targets for the fourth quarter. The search giant reports earnings Thursday and Wall Street is expecting earnings of $5.42 a share on revenue of $4.24 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. However, most analysts...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Snowe and enemies push health reform forward
- The industry's moves gave opposition "a public face," as one analyst noted, allowing Democrats to do what Republicans are so good at, unity through opposition. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Intel is ready for your fourth quarter business: Will you show up?
- Intel spent a lot of time talking about inventories on its fiscal third quarter conference call. The industry is stocking up on Intel chips ahead of server refreshes and the launch of Windows 7. The nagging worry for many analysts: Will businesses and consumers show up to drive the upgrade...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Linux-Windows gap to remain for five years
- The Linux desktop experience is now closer to the Windows environment than before, but the gap in mainstream adoption for the open source OS will not close anytime soon, says an industry analyst. The Linux desktop experience is now closer to the Windows environment than before, but the gap...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Skype's New Revenue Model
- Skype just announced a new kind of advertising-based service. The service is aimed at giving Skype a portion of the $31billion yellow page market. With Skype's business funded click-to-call, Skype users will find it easier and free to call local businesses . A call that is...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- HP Answers Thin Client Questions
- NOTE: The good folks at HP pointed out that I had used an old version of my document and some factual errors crept into my post. This is a revised version of the post with those errors removed and quite possibly new ones inserted. On September 16th,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Polycom: A potential takeover target following Cisco-Tandberg deal
- With Cisco gobbling up Tandberg for $3 billion and bolstering its video conferencing lineup all eyes turn to Polycom, another market leader that looks ripe to be acquired. If not, Polycom is expected to be able to hold its own against Cisco. Cisco's acquisition of Tandberg gives...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?
- Nvidia unveiled its next-generation graphics processing unit GPU architecture, dubbed Fermi, and announced a key supercomputing win with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The takeaway: Graphics and visualization are becoming key to scientific discoveries. And Nvidia could be a major player. Oak Ridge's supercomputer will be used...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Lawsuit alert: carbon wars are set to begin
- I actually heard one political analyst today say that "nobody" wants the EPA to single-handedly deal with greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. By that I presume this MSM reporter means nobody with lots of power or money in Washington. All sides want to see Congress weigh-in....
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Data governance and IBM System z - Your key to business optimization
- The pressure's on and it's staying on. How well you manage your data and deliver it can make the difference between business success or failure. The usage, sharing and processing of electronic data continues to rapidly increase, yet many corporations still complain about being data rich but information poor....
- Webcasts 2009-09-29
- HP: We'll outpace the market in 2010
- HP is bullish on 2010. And today, at a Securities Analyst meeting, CEO Mark Hurd said he expects the IT industry to return to growth in 2010 and went so far as to say that HP will outpace the market. In a statement, Hurd said: Our broad product and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Pay to play: The vendor / analyst mating dance
- Analyst Liability?Could you imagine if a customer held an analyst liable if their review/recommendation was markedly different than the customer's experience? I know your Devil's Triangle theory would make it near impossible to "pin" it on the analyst review, but it is an intriguing idea given the "mating dance" you...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
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