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I’m at the EMC World 2012 conference this week and I am writing this during the keynote. The opening visual was the launch of the EMC space ship into the galaxy of data and opportunity. The core me... More >
BMC, one of the largest enterprise software companies in the world, just got a hostile takeover warning this week after Elliott Associates moved to take over its board and package the company for sa... More >
The history of technology has been dominated by men, and technology products have historically been focused on men. However, this is clearly changing and the social media wave we are now experiencing... More >
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We have an interesting choice coming up in a few months for those of us looking to buy new PCs. The word “interesting” can mean new and different, or it can be like the Chinese curse, “ May you live ... More >
Last week, I argued that Yahoo's CEO should step down . My old friend Dan Lyons over at The Daily Beast defends Scott Thompson, the CEO of Yahoo who apparently falsified his background, this week ... More >
As I write this, the story is breaking that Yahoo’s latest CEO, Scott Thompson, falsified his education and that there is a push to get him to step down. Apparently, the board member chairing both ... More >
Last week, McAfee launched its long-awaited update to the SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) it had acquired when it bought NitroSecurity. SIEM products are a fascinating product set ... More >
This week was Dell’s industry analyst conference where several hundred of us descend on the company and compete to see who can ask the pithiest question. As expected, they walked us through some of t... More >
Workstations are the cream of the personal computer crop. These are tools specifically designed for the engineers who use them. Unlike most systems used in business, workstations are largely selected... More >
That was the takeaway thought as I watched Zach Nelson at the Demo 2012 conference take a position that every legacy non-cloud ERP vendor was obsolete and should immediately be replaced by the Net... More >
I had an opportunity to chat with Michael Dell last week and it was a fascinating conversation. I’m a big fan of founder-run companies because the more traditional, outside-sourced CEO tends to be ... More >
One of the aspects of the IBM I grew up with that largely was lost as the company struggled to compete on price over the last couple of decades was the intimate relationship the firm had with its cus... More >
I was on a Sales 2.0 panel last week and underneath much of the discussion between a couple of analysts and the CEO of Sales Pipeline was the reality that CRM (customer relationship management) too... More >
For Yahoo, which is currently under a proxy fight and trying to replace yet one more board, and with a CEO as yet untested in Yahoo’s space (again), “troubled” best defines the company. As turnaround... More >
The title of this post was the point Ed Bott made on Twitter this morning when he tweeted this link to a chart showcasing that every company covered, including Microsoft, is growing faster than G... More >
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