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Rob Enderle wraps a Microsoft love kiss around some action I'd love to get a piece of: the notion that unless something dramatically changes, by 2015 we'll be largely wondering what all the fuss surrounding Linux was really about. Even Steve Ballmer might find Enderle's blissful analysis of the similarities...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, RSS, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Rob Enderle, Microsoft Longhorn, Netscape Communications Corp., Linux

Blog posts 2005-04-22

With Hurd, is HP buying grooming time for VJ?

While all eyes are on HP's new chief executive Mark Hurd, the decision suggests that that Vyomesh Joshi VJ, HP's head of personal computers and printing and imaging is clearly on a fast track for the top job, according to analyst Rob Enderle, of the Enderle Group. In a blog...

Tags: Vyomesh Joshi, Rob Enderle, Mark Hurd

Blog posts 2005-03-29

Karma Chameleon

David Berlind's hat tip to the Verizon/Windows Media Player deal is nicely nuanced as it straddles the fence between a warning and an analyst brief. In just a few short months since ZDNet began blogging and weeks since Berlind began podcasting, the service (and that's what it is) has become...

Tags: David Berlind, Rob Enderle

Blog posts 2005-01-30

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Fighting off antitrust, Google says it's not dominant

The Washington Post is running a piece from The Big Money's Jeff Horwitz with the amusing headline "Google Says It's Actually Quite Small." Google, Hurwitz says, is attempting to redefine itself out of market dominance. With its absolute dominance of search advertising plain for all to see...

Tags: Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Antitrust, Corporate Law, Search, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-07

Google, Books and the Nature of Evil

Google, Books and the Nature of Eviljust that simpleYou are wrong. Current copyright laws are wrong.Its just that simple.Join the LudditesJoin the Luddites with Rob Enderle et al. I never saw forward thinking coming from his direction.Google is doing the right thing and it upsets many people, mostly in...

Tags: Google Inc., Evil

Discussion threads 2009-04-30

OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patents

OIN spearheads review of Microsoft FAT patentsThe OIN is nothing more than a bottom feeder trying hard....to do away with patents they think they can fight. If Linux based systems are not guily of major patent abuse, as MS has claimed in the past, why would there be an OIN...

Tags: patent, OIN, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Analyst: HP and IBM should be friends, not foes

There's an interesting read by longtime Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle published today about how much both HP and IBM have changed over the years - so much so that these days, the two look more like allies instead of competitors. He says that "massive changes" over...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-24

The HP-MySpace deal: Who needs this most? Not MySpace users.

HP and MySpace are partnering to "unlock the content of MySpace" by giving users the tools to print their pictures. You know, like to a printer. Hopefully, wink wink an HP printer. On the surface, this sounds like a good plan. There are billions of images that...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Photograph, Image, MySpace, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

News to know: Vista x64; Apple; Phishing; Facebook

Notable headlines: Jason Perlow: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista Ed Bott: You've got Vista x64 questions, I've got answers Jason O'Grady: Apple drops iPhone 2.0.1 software (updated 3x) Infinite Loop: Steve Jobs:...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Vyatta, Mauku, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-05

Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0

Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0My Wish List.Only one thing: I would like Microsoft to get solidly behind Mono to get a complete and up-to-date .Net implementation for Linux.Very interesting. Not sure what they hope to gain here or how the willmaintain the block-in. Probably the best answer, is that...

Tags: Linux, .NET, Development tools, Golden Age, Microsoft Corp., Glasnost 2.0, open source

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Microsoft Meets Open Source: Glasnost 2.0

Last week I spent two days on campus in Redmond with about 40 of my industry colleagues at the Microsoft Technology Summit, an annual invite-only event where Microsoft selects a swath of people from all over the world -- key technology influencers -- to learn about what the company is...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Jeff Jones (err Microsoft): Vista more secure than everything

Jeff Jones err Microsoft: Vista more secure than everythingWhat metric should be used?To gauge security. It's clear counting vulnerabilities and patching isn't optimal. For those of you out there cleaning machines and in the field what's the metric or set of metrics we should use?I realize it's not an easy...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, MSFT, Microsoft Corp., Jeff Jones, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, security, anti-Microsoft

Discussion threads 2008-01-24

Apple's growth, an unwinnable iPhone war and a reputation at risk

Apple is clearly in a war with hackers over the iPhone and its most loyal fans could take a few hits. How Apple performs through these battles will determine the company's overall reputation going forward. Today's angst over iPhones becoming iBricks because they were modified is really just...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Customer Service, Consumer Reports, Apple Inc., Public Relations, Product Marketing, Hacking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing Research, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Microsoft resets its search targets

Microsoft resets its search targetsAn unblinking eye on Microsoft?I don't really have anything against Mary Jo Foley, but to say that she would provide an unblinking eye on Microsoft in view of her long record of past performance, I think must be slightly disingenuous. I think that it's a little...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., giant company, big company, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

The sysadmin job: what's changed in ten years

The sysadmin job: what's changed in ten yearsP550 slow? Say it ain't so!Everything about IBM just sux. Their hardware is overhyped and underdelivering. Their software won't work unless you TOTALLY BUY IN to their "message" - i.e. Don't just BUY Tivoli - hire an entire team of experts to struggle...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, job, SCO Group Inc., Unix, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-09-19

Will the rumor machine ruin Apple's iPod surprise?

Will the rumor machine ruin Apple's iPod surprise?A lot of rumors are based on wishesWhen the rumors start flying it's generally the Mac heads that are posting their Utopian desires - like 32 gigs of FLASH included in a $250 iPod.I tend to be in the group that sorta believes...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., rumor machine, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-09-04

Techs describe how Apple boosted iPhone battery life

Slate's David Sessions was wondering exactly how Apple has- at least by their own tested explanations- lengthened the battery life of the iPhone to as much as eight hours.Sessions then got busy, talking to some experts about how this could be done.Experts such as Richard Doherty of the Envisioneering Group,...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-25

Dell picks Ubuntu for Linux PCs

Dell picks Ubuntu for Linux PCsCongratulations UbuntuHopefully Dell does for you what IBM did for Microsoft. I may just save up for a Linux Loaded Dell.For those who don't want VistaIt is an alternative. For me Vista or Linux on new PC doesn't matter as neither OS will run the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Linux PC, Linux, Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., PC

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

Wal-Mart favors HD-DVD

Wal-Mart may not have an official stance on the respective merits of HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray, but actions speak louder than words. According to a recent report, Wal-Mart will be buying 2 million HD-DVD players at a price of around $50.00 per unit. Of course, consumers wont see a price that...

Tags: Hardware Infrastructure, General, BluRay, HD DVD, HD

Blog posts 2007-04-25

SCO vs. IBM: clarity as push approaches shove

SCO vs. IBM: clarity as push approaches shoveEstoppelMurph, you misunderstand the key point of the "statute of limitations" issue. If AT&T had, indeed, intended that the contract prohibited IBM from publicly disclosing its own inventions (e.g. RCU), then they had the opportunity fifteen years ago to tell IBM not...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., Caldera Systems Inc., statute, Murph, Linux

Discussion threads 2007-03-12