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- Sun's new success formula: NPV
- Sun's new success formula: NPVSounds like bundling to me...;-)Linux desktopCome on now, I am still laughing....:)50 dollars a yearis too much money to pay to remain on Suns 'good nature list. Dont know though things could change. Would be great to be doing Sun as the third op.sys. on desktop....
- Tags: Desktops, Sun Microsystems Inc., success formula, NPV, desktop
- Discussion threads 2004-06-30
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- Apple's "force fed ads" patent more likely related to content, not hardware
- Perhaps neitherHopefully you are right and they'll use this process to allow customers to earn free content. Unfortunatley I see this as being a way for Apple to increase its warchest by forcing its followers to view ads. Perhaps it'll be a blend - view enough ads to put $10...
- Tags: hardware, O'Grady, advertisement, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!
- Vista is still alive here..."Vista definitely improved"Vista-preinstalled SP1/SP2 Just Works, so I have no immediate plans to upgrade to Windows 7. Right now, I don't want to tempt fate.I don't see why people get all emo over Vista's UAC. It doesn't bother me.Yes, everyone says that Windows 7 is better...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2009-10-24
- Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!
- This Halloween, let's all celebrate what we're really feeling: The Wicked Vista is DEAD! In the United States, we've got a bunch of frivolous holidays. I've always regarded Halloween as a particularly frivolous holiday, one in which we encourage our...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Halloween, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-24
- Private clouds: A valuable concept or buzzword bingo?
- Governance and Control are a serious isssue...The blog seemed to try to downplay the loss of control of business information and data like it was the same as losing control of an electricity grid. The two things are not the same. When the electricity grid goes down, sure business stops...
- Tags: Virtualization, Recruitment & Selection, tech industry, Google Inc., cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- 230 MPG. 367 MPG. Pick a number and market it! Doubts are voiced.
- What difference does it make?I mean seriously, what if its only half that, its still better than anything you can buy today. As to the "hype", is this the first time you have heard marketing hype?Wow, Polarized Vote OptionsSeems like the vote options are either, "It's really good/the next...
- Tags: MPG, General Motors Corp., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
- Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?
- Gauging the return on R&D: Do tech giants spend too much?Microsoft spend too much on R&D for the return, IBM spend right amountIBM has always been a set of collective businesses with a management that is without technology bias. This is a powerful formula for long term success.Microsoft by comparison...
- Tags: Research & Development, R&D, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- Sony debuts X-series Walkman with Wi-Fi, touchscreen OLED, noise cancellation
- Sony debuts X-series Walkman with Wi-Fi, touchscreen OLED, noise cancellationCosts more and does lessThat's generally not a formula for success.RE: Sony debuts X-series Walkman with Wi-Fi, touchscreen OLED, noise cancellationHonestly, the first thing I thought was how Sony is going to manage to screw this up royally with some proprietary...
- Tags: Keyboards, Wireless LANs, Monitors & displays, Utility computing, Servers, Sony Corp., X-series Walkman, noise cancellation, IBM xSeries, organic light-emitting diode, touch screen, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- PlayStation - The Perils of Secrecy: is it Game Over?
- PlayStation - The Perils of Secrecy: is it Game Over?Deja vu is what it is - but with a twistRemember OS2? IBM funded Microsoft to develop both OS2 and DOS. Then MS took that knowledge and made Windows, consequently blowing both OS2 and IBM DOS out of the water.It...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Sales strategy, DVD, Consumer electronics, Deja Vu, Sony Corp., Nintendo Wii, game, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp., Secrecy, Perils, Sony Playstation
- Discussion threads 2009-04-18
- Connecting hobby and business in open source
- Connecting hobby and business in open sourceHow do we measure open source success?Good article. Getting the balance of community and corporate interests right is not easy. The rewards can be lucrative. Linux, Eclipse, and others show that a vibrant community and making money are not at odds. I recently wrote...
- Tags: open source, open-source success
- Discussion threads 2009-04-16
- More comments on Cisco UCS launch
- It was just last week that Cisco announced its Unified Computing System UCS. As a reminder, the announcement included a Cisco switch, the UCS B-Series blade server, virtual machine software from VMware and other products from Cisco and third-parties. Cisco hopes that this will entice organizations to move from their...
- Tags: Egenera Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Threatpost launches as best practice for enterprise IT and social media
- While social media represented measurable success for many consumer-focused companies, there is still a lot of learning to be done in terms of how enterprise technology-focused companies leverage social media. And while many are having luck using collaboration tools or even white label social networks for improving internal communications or...
- Tags: Brand, Kaspersky Lab, Information Technology, Social Media, Site, Best Practice, Threatpost, Naraine, Kaspersky Team, Drawas, Branding, Security, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make
- Guest post: Certain common IT management mistakes can make you less effective, hamper your career advancement, and even jeopardize your job. Executive coach Joey Smith has spent years working with IT management and he put together this list of the mistakes he’s seen most often. For more posts like this...
- Tags: Job, IT Administration, Information Technology, IT Manager, Personal Development, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- New Website for 'the architecture formerly known as SOA'
- Who said SOA types can't be the life of the party. Miko Matsumura, curator of the SOA Center blogsite, has just renamed his site the Whatever-you-want-to-call-it Center, at http://whatevercenter.com. This was done in reaction to Anne Thomas Manes' New Year's proclamation that "SOA [as we have known...
- Tags: SOA, Web Site, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Second Verse, Different Than the First
- Industry Giants -the New Adults on the Block Most of these might not be surprising to you but they are to me. With maybe the exception of Sage...and NetSuite....and RightNow and.....ah well. I guess they aren't really all that surprising. But to some degree, IBM and Cisco are surprising. ...
- Tags: Strategy, Application, NetSuite Inc., IBM Corp., CRM, Zach, Zoho, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Creating a sales infrastructure for Sun
- Creating a sales infrastructure for Sun$3.82 = Sun's stock price @ time of writingI won't argue that sun has some great technologies but it truly has no idea how to integrate or market them. IBM & HP have Server and services strategies that Sun has never had,Most of Sun's answers...
- Tags: Workforce management, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, sales, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tim Bray
- Discussion threads 2008-12-10
- Cloud definitions and economics
- Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- SPAM and the free lunch
- SPAM and the free lunchSIMPLE SOLUTION: Mandatory email server registration!(1) Get rid of "Reply-to:" tags.(2) Mandatory email server registration using credit cards, at yearly rate $2~3 dollars.This will make spammers impossible to operate without being caught.What SPAM is that?During the height of the "bad old days" of spam, I got...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?
- Apple gadget lust for me, but anything for Ed Tech?Your Mac Lust borders on Creepy....Geez... that article is just a little bit scary. The kid on the eTrade commercials is in my head..."I seriously underestimated the creepiness factor"... he says this about a clown and I am applying it...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Desktops, DVD, Consumer electronics, Notebooks, Apple Inc., video
- Discussion threads 2008-10-14
- ITV Wins the Race Against Time to Keep Formula 1 Website Available With ZeusTechnology as the "High-Octane" Additive
- The day before the first qualifying race in Australia, ITV was becoming a victim of its own success. Formula 1 fans were visiting the website in the hundreds of thousands, and the third party infrastructure that hosted the site was running up against severe bandwidth limitations. To keep the site...
- Tags: Zeus Technology, Web Site, iTV, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2008-10-01
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