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July 2, 2009

The IBM System x Series: Strategic Again

Ever since IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo, there has been the belief that that sale would be the first of two dropped shoes, the second being the X86 server division, also known as the System x ... More >

June 30, 2009

The T400S, ThinkPad, and Finding the Perfect Laptop

The IBM , now Lenovo , ThinkPad has long been thought to be the closest thing to the perfect laptop. This is the line that the other OEMs are typically measured against, and it just released a ne... More >

June 25, 2009

Windows 7 Pricing: Microsoft Responds to Snow Leopard Threat with Hot Deal

  Windows Vista was a huge advantage for Apple -- since it launched and up until last quarter, Apple was aggressively taking market share from Microsoft. Last quarter, Microsoft responded with a... More >

End-to-End BPM

Learn the features and benefits of the IBM® BPM Suite in this mini-course.

An Evaluation of "Build Versus Buy" for Portal Solutions

This white paper presents the results of an IDC study that quantifies and compares the total cost of ownership (TCO) of in-house portal development with that of an outsourced portal development solution.

June 22, 2009

HP Announces Cloud-Based Linux Appliance Revolution

Most of the companies backing the cloud, from EMC to IBM, are focused like lasers on the back end. But the cloud also means changes on the client side. The cloud suggests the growth of focused client... More >

June 18, 2009

Oracle-Sun Update: Why IBM May Have a Reason to Celebrate

Oracle is an expert at acquisitions. Few do it better, but with Sun, it got a bunch of unique problems ( including a processor that no one seemed to want ), and they seem to be bleeding the value out... More >

June 15, 2009

Dispute Finder: Intel's Noble Effort to Showcase Both Sides of Tough Issues

Every once in a while something comes out of a lab that not only isn't self-serving, it could actually be dangerous to some of the top executives in a company. Dispute Finder, an offering out of Inte... More >

June 11, 2009

Apple and the Enterprise: Change Is in the Wind

Apple, in sharp contrast to Microsoft, clearly thinks IT managers don’t provide any value in terms of determining their products or solutions. But, if you look at the result, couldn’t you argue that ... More >

June 9, 2009

WWDC: Apple Continues to Drive PC Design as It Kills the PC

While Apple is far from the least expensive PC vendor and doesn't really like corporate buyers much (though this may be changing ), it constantly amazes by doing a solid job of design and eventually... More >

June 4, 2009

Palm Pre Sets The New High Bar for Smartphones

I've been playing with the Palm Pre for about a full day now and it is an impressive phone. In many ways, it is as if Palm is giving the single finger salute to Apple with a product by quite litera... More >

June 1, 2009

Hara: Taking Green Efforts Mainstream

There are several huge problems with going green regardless of what kind of company you are and the industry in which you operate. Among the biggest are trying to understand the choices you have and ... More >

May 29, 2009

Microsoft Bing vs. Google Wave: It's All About Risk

Microsoft's Bing search engine and Google Wave are two very distinct and different products, but they showcase where in the ecosystem each vendor is as well as current strengths and possible strat... More >

May 27, 2009

Palm Pre vs. iPhone and the Element of Surprise

There is a long history of companies that got too full of themselves and took what should have been a massive success and turned it into a massive failure. Two that come to mind are Netscape and ... More >

May 22, 2009

IBM and HP: Different Strategies in a Changing World

  In looking at the financial results from last quarter, you increasingly see a growing difference between HP and IBM, except in one area: services. Both companies are generally, with the co... More >

May 20, 2009

Why Google Can't Even Spell 'Enterprise'

This week is EMC World , and EMC -- like IBM, HP and Oracle -- is a fully qualified and respected enterprise vendor. Even Microsoft, which has been working to become an enterprise vendor for two de... More >

May 18, 2009

Private Cloud Model Will Win over Public Cloud Model

Google has been having a long argument with companies like VMware and EMC on whether the future of cloud computing will be centrally managed distributed services from companies like Google or whether... More >