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There's a green lining in economic clouds

Less economic activity means green benefits: - Lower carbon footprint from less commuting to fewer jobs. - Fewer trucks delivering fewer goods. - Less pollution from factories running at half-speed. - No need to sign Kyoto agreement to reduce C02 emissions. - Less...

Tags: Upturn, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-01-25

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Google: Nice quarter, but...

Google's expense management enabled the company to handily top its earnings targets, but there were Wall Street worries about the company's lack of revenue growth. Revenue per click was also a worry. The company today reported second quarter revenue of $4.07 billion, beating Wall Street's estimates of...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Microsoft: Outlook's not broken and we aren't 'fixing' it

Microsoft: Outlook's not broken and we aren't 'fixing' itthe Customer, the Choice! or NOT!Wouldnt the sensible thing here be to give the USER, the CUSTOMER, the CHOICE of what rendering engine they should use! Not just Word or IE8 but a browser engine of your choosing. Another nail in the...

Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, CSS, Groupware, e-mail, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, HTML, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-24

HR Analytics: Gaining Insights for the Upturn

Find out how workforce analytics is being used to significant strategic effect, helping HR organizations make decisions on cutting programs to lower costs, reduce workforce, and reallocate talent to ensure strategic business goals are met.

Tags: SAP AG, Workforce, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources

White papers 2009-06-17

SAP Sapphire: Reading the tea leaves demand, margins and M&A

SAP's Sapphire customer powwow concluded this week and the takeaways appear to focus on what wasn't there: Subscription pricing, a sign of an enduring rebound and confidence that the company can maintain its profit margins.  Among the notable business points Dennis Howlett has the product overview: ...

Tags: M&A, SAP AG, MacMillan, Merger And Acquisition Speculation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pricing, Roi/Tco, Marketing Research, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-15

Future-Proof Networking: Making Decisions That Last

The next step to realizing strategic vision and creating a highly productive and efficient IT infrastructure is to collaborate with a network solutions expert that understands long-term business goals and how to maximize business's success. IT infrastructure purchasing decisions everywhere were being scrutinized. Is this purchase strategic to one's business?...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Network, Cisco Systems Inc.

White papers 2009-05-01

Google first quarter earnings on deck: What to watch

Google's first quarter is expected to be roughly in line with expectations and some analysts say Wall Street may be too pessimistic about the search giant's financial results.  Google reports earnings on Thursday and as usual will be closely watched. Wall Street is expecting Google to report...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, YouTube Inc., Earnings, Laura Martin, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Microsoft: The top 5 risks; Will it cut 2009 outlook as PC market stumbles?

The worries about Microsoft's fiscal second quarter and fiscal 2009 are starting to pile up. While Microsoft is viewed as one of those recession resistant companies--no company is recession proof--the headwinds to the software giant's quarter are becoming clear. On Thursday, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt lowered...

Tags: Revenue, PC, Microsoft Corp., Jeffrey Lindsay, Brent Williams, Software As A Service (SaaS), Operational Accounting, Desktops, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-11

Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributions

It looks like we've gone from speculating whether we're headed into recession depression, to speculating just what that depression is going to look like. Yihong Ding, over on the Thinking Space blog,predicts that we'll have a "Golden Age" of the Web thanks to millions sitting at home with little else...

Tags: Web, F/OSS, Channel Management, Open Source, Marketing, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Is Grandma's Linux called Mac OS X?

This morning I came across an interesting post by Dwight Silverman TechBlog.  Here Dwight is thoughts related to the trouble he encountered trying to get VMware Tools to run on Ubuntu loaded into a Fusion virtual machine on a Mac.  Here's the background: In Windows, this process...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Open Source, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Sales of boxed Vista copies down over XP

Sales of boxed Vista copies down over XPThats because you didnt get to use all of the ...NEW DRM Features :)So please go Linux yourselfNo one is stopping you. Oh, unless you want real apps to get real work done...One question:is Beryl similar to LG3D?That is truely amazingNow that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, sales

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

One year later, is Solaris 10 on track?

This week marks the one year anniversary since Solaris 10 was first released. For Sun, Solaris 10 has been a bit of a milestone. Solaris 10 represents the first time that the company's x86 and SPARC-based versions are actually fruit from the the same source code tree. ...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris 10, Chris Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2006-01-27

Survival of software's fittest

Survival of software's fittestNot if they are privately heldOnly if they are traded on the stock market, then they are fair game. ;)There are several successful privately owned software companies that will not sell out. The secret is working for them, any large Corporation will have to grow 20-25% each...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Channel management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture capital, Strategy, software, supplier, consolidation

Discussion threads 2004-08-16

3G delays bring to 12% in cellular infrastructure market

The global cellular infrastructure market declined by 12% last year, mainly due to delays in deploying third-generation networks. But there was an upturn in the fourth quarter, according to Gartner. Mobile network operators spent even less in 2003 than in 2002, and investments in radio access, switching, applications and...

Tags: Cellular phones, WIRELESS, 3G

Blog posts 2004-05-23

Microsoft: Not enough XPerienced PCs

Microsoft: Not enough XPerienced PCsMaybe they need to...Maybe they need to:o Stop changing the user interface.o Recognize that people are probably only using a small fraction of the existing features so...o Stop adding new features and, instead, make the old ones work first.o (Especially the features relating to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, New PC, PC, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, activation

Discussion threads 2004-04-12

VLSI Research: Chip sales could rise by 33% in 2004

Global revenue from semiconductor sales could rise by 33% to $189.6 bil in 2004, driven by a 20% increase in output, a research group said on Monday. Makers of chip manufacturing equipment stand to benefit as chip producers would need to invest in new production capacity, it said."The chip making...

Tags: VLSI Research, chip

Blog posts 2004-01-12

SEMI: Orders for chipmaking equipment up

Orders for microchip-making equipment from North American manufacturers rose 7% from the prior month, indicating a robust upturn for next year, a trade group said on Thursday. The three-month average of worldwide orders in November 2003 was $930 mln, above the revised October figure of $871 mln, and 20% above...

Tags: ORDERS, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International

Blog posts 2003-12-21

Upturn seen for IT spending in 2004

Upturn seen for IT spending in 2004recovery??The IT market has been booming for a while....in India.I think that's the recovery they were talking about. I can't see any in US!That's because it's not 2004 yetThis is an increase in spending. It's predictable too. 1999 meant IT departments spent money upgrading....

Tags: IT-spending

Discussion threads 2003-12-08

IDC: IT spending will go up 6-8%

Senior Vice President Frank Gens said IT spending will grow 6% to 8%, up from previous predictions of 4.9%. Gens said enterprise adoption of business-oriented applications and the need to upgrade hardware after a three-year drought will drive the upturn in IT buying.

Tags: Frank Gens

Blog posts 2003-12-04