Today the relationship between Yahoo and Microsoft was defined, and the market punished Yahoo because it wanted the cash from a merger. It rewarded Microsoft because it thought the merger was stupi... More >
I spent much of last week reviewing the ITIC survey on enterprise server platforms. IBM AIX won in virtually every major category, from uptime, to time to patch, in every type of problem report. It... More >
Windows 7 was released to manufacturing and faces an installed base of users who don't yet know what to think of this new OS. They are a little jaded by what happened with Vista. This provides an opp... More >
My first job actually working for a tech company was with ROLM Systems, which built the most advanced PBX (business phone system, it stands for private branch exchange) for its time. It was so adv... More >
One of the interesting things that you’ll be able to watch shortly is the store wars between Apple and Microsoft . I’ve been a big fan of the Apple stores and actually did the opening for CNET radio... More >
Today I’m in Austin at the Dell Financial Analyst meeting where the company is sharing details of its operations. I’ll cover the material that it has shared in brief and conclude with my sense of how... More >
Often, when watching companies full of kids who were hired right out of school, I wonder how many of them actually earned their grades and how many simply gamed the system by downloading papers writt... More >
EMC wants Data Domain badly and clearly doesn’t want NetApp to get control of it. This week, EMC upped its offer significantly and, on paper, it has generally been a superior offer because it ... More >
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 >

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