Recently, I was asked to comment on a large institution that has specified Cisco in an RFP for networking and telephony gear. I got the call because there had been what appeared to be a similar insta... More >
Last week, I was one of the analysts at EMC World . This is EMC's big event for customers, press and analysts; they get to see the current EMC product line and get updates from a number of top execu... More >
HP is one of several firms aggressively doing acquisitions. Its latest, EDS , takes it one big step closer to being able to build a cloud-based IT outsourcing business, likely catching most of its ... More >
I took a meeting with a company called Apture the other day and while I was listening to what the company was doing and what it planned to do, I wondered if I would be able to tell if it could grow... More >
HP has announced its intent to buy EDS and the process is already in stark contrast to the failed one Microsoft used on Yahoo. IBM is the competitive target for the HP acquisition and HP moved ahea... More >
In an attempt to avoid what likely would have been significant erosion to its installed base, RIM announced its BlackBerry Bold this week. Information is leaking out, but we know less about the s... More >
Since the beginning of the personal computer market, one argument was defined by an initial disagreement between Apple and Microsoft about whether PC hardware and software needed to be closely couple... More >
In my last post, I wrote of Google's apparent intention to put Microsoft out of business. One of the folks posting on the piece asked a question about why Linux isn't more frequently used in the ho... More >
In a way, this is almost like deja vu for me, as in the early days of the computer business the talk of one vendor trying to kill the other was what kept you fired up, particularly when it was you th... More >
I spent the first two days of this week at a Microsoft event covering virtualization and management tools. This is a group that, if nothing else, has its act together, based on the customers I inte... More >

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