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Penguin Computing gets new sales chief

Penguin Computing gets new sales chiefPenguin Computing gets new sales chiefLike all good leaders Bill Cook saw a sinking ship. With linux's low market share and declining value who in their right mind would even consider working for a linux company? This is just the start of many...

Tags: Sales strategy, Linux, Sales force management, new sales chief, Penguin Computing, sales chief, sales

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

The empire strikes back under Intel's new sales chief

The empire strikes back under Intel's new sales chiefAMD stock price up almost 6% on July 28thAMD's recent actions may be puzzleing ot us outsiders, but somebody knows something and those somebodies are buying AMD stock.If I had to guess, I would say it has to do with new products...

Tags: Sales strategy, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., sales chief, AMD stock, sales

Discussion threads 2006-07-29

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Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." ...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 7, Microsoft, Ballmer, Ina Fried CNET News

News items 2009-11-20

News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Google Inc., Web, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Dashboard, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-11-06

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)

What no comment by NonZ? I hope he/she is not ill or something:PPagan jimThe P.T.Barnum of the Tech Industry......when is he going to cut the Chinamen that work for him in on the big cash flow?NZ will show up at some pointUnless he is on vacation.Or getting over the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Steve Jobs, Babe Ruth

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer

This white paper examines six challenges, or imperatives, that every chief sales officer faces in the current environment, and provides recommendations on how to most effectively address and convert these obstacles into opportunities and competitive advantage. Whether it's the challenge of driving growth in a difficult economy, increasing sales capacity...

Tags: Environment, Officer, Imperative, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales

White papers 2009-11-01

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

News to know: Apple; AT&T; Google Books; Palm Pixi; Verizon; Best Buy-Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Linux, Digital Music, Digital Media, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2009-09-10

Salesforce.com fires back at Oracle in SaaS war

In recent quarters Oracle has been taking aim at Salesforce.com, noting that its Siebel On Demand was poaching customers. On Thursday it was Salesforce's turn to return fire. Following Salesforce's fiscal second quarter earnings, CEO Marc Benioff, as chatty as ever, took aim at his trash talking...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set

The economic downturn no doubt helped push some manufacturers like Pioneer out of the plasma market, but the recession may now be saving plasmas from the brink of obsolescence. According to a new report from Quixel Research, plasma HDTVs have zoomed to a huge gain in 2Q of 2009, with...

Tags: Sony Corp., Plasma, Organic Light-emitting Diode, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Sony Ericsson taps Nordberg as new CEO; Stringer as board chairman

Struggling handset maker Sony Ericsson said on Monday techmeme that chief executive Dick Komiyama would retire at the end of the year, naming Ericsson executive Bert Nordberg to take the helm from October 15. Adding to the executive musical chairs, the firm also...

Tags: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Board, Cell Phone, Ericsson Inc., Cellular Phones, Corporate Governance, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Enterprise Irregulars Join Social CRM Fray

I'd say that the headline is a bit of an understatement or maybe even a misstatement by me.  Let me tell you why. If your life preference is to cower under bedcovers, then you might not have heard of the Enterprise Irregulars EI.   They are a group of iconoclastic, often...

Tags: Blog, Customer, CRM, Ross, Customer Insight, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-12

News to know: VMWare; Facebook acquires Friendfeed; Facebook Search; MS Office;

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: VMware goes shopping: Buys SpringSource for $420 million; Can it keep the open source mojo? Joe McKendrick: Panel: too...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mobile, Microsoft Office, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Storage

Blog posts 2009-08-11

Chip industry's boom/bust cycles and the failure of business intelligence

The chip industry appears to be recovering from its bust cycle and beginning to enter into its boom cycle - it's a repetitive cycle of around four years in length. The Semiconductor Industry Association reports a 20 percent drop to $51.7 billion for the second...

Tags: Business Intelligence, Industry, Chip, Chip Industry, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Manufacturing, Hardware, Networking, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Microsoft's Project Natal for business: In your dreams

Natural user interfaces will be big. Anyone that sees Microsoft's Project Natal demo comes away impressed. Once Microsoft execs try to extend that to the business world you can't help but snicker. That clunky transition from the Xbox to the business world was in plain view at...

Tags: Environment, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Business World, Mundie, Game Players, Microsoft Project, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Intel says big question mark on business IT recovery

Intel [INTC] this morning held a mid-year update looking at its major business groups and initiatives. The first session was with Sean Maloney, Intel's most important executive next to Paul Otellini, CEO. Mr Maloney is executive vice president and chief sales and marketing...

Tags: Recovery, Information Technology, Question Mark, IT-spending, Intel Corp., Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-07-29