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Some weeks are quiet and some not so much. EMC pulled together one of the most powerful partnerships this week, from an enterprise standpoint. Dell acquired Perot Systems and became a true enterprise... More >
Recently Steve Ballmer has been under a microscope. Dan Lyons wrote a Newsweek piece called the “Lost Decade: Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates” and he is right. Ballmer is no Bill Gates. But th... More >
I got a number of questions both in this blog and in e-mail as a result of writing about the first big Windows 7 deployment. I thought it might be more interesting to address them in another post. Th... More >
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I’ve been rather confused about the entire concept of net neutrality for some time. This is because, like anything else that is bounced between political parties and large industries, the politics ... More >
At the Windows 7 launch, I interviewed two companies in depth about their deployment plans. Given the ITIC survey results indicating that 30 percent of businesses would upgrade within six months of... More >
This is Windows 7 launch week and I just finished going over much of the marketing creative that’ll you’ll see in a few days. This is some of the best work I’ve seen, and the fact that it is coming ... More >
Yesterday it was reported that Acer, a strong global consumer-focused PC maker, passed Dell, the strongest U.S.-focused corporate PC maker, for the number 2 spot. While the market for PCs grew slight... More >
One of the most frightening sentences in business is “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” This is because, over the years, we’ve learned that while governments often have the best of ... More >
If I were to describe a company that built a very profitable vertically integrated solution and was aggressive at preventing clones in order to protect margins, you’d think I was talking about Apple.... More >
Last week was Nvidia’s first large developers conference for GPU computing. The San Jose Fairmont hotel had around 1,500 people attending the event, with the majority connected in some way to a GPU d... More >
Down markets often create massive companies. Cisco wasn’t exactly tiny as we entered this downturn, however, it is suddenly much larger, having picked up Tandberg, one of the oldest and largest video... More >
Part of the problem with being an analyst is that we are expected to think as if we were living five years in the future. While the market is undergoing a recovery at the moment, I was recentl... More >
I get to go to a lot of events and I can see which folks really put the effort into making what they are presenting special and those that either offloaded the effort to some flunky or waited until t... More >
What a services unit gives you is higher customer loyalty and, assuming you do it right, a hedge against bad years. What it takes away is some of your agility (it adds size) and rapid financial perfo... More >
I was talking to a security specialist from one of the largest aerospace companies in the world and he told an interesting story. Fortunately, it wasn’t about his own company so I can share it. It qu... More >
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