In some ways Oracle, by acquiring Sun, has created a company that on paper looks very similar to the direction that IBM was going in the 1960s but with software, not hardware, in the lead. However, t... More >
If I were to describe two companies, one that is heavily leveraged by partners with global consumer and corporate scope and another that is largely U.S.-centric and largely limited to the consumer ma... More >
Next week begins the post PC era, what could be the one of the most important events in technology since the launch of the Apple II. Apple launched a revolution and then watched other companies tak... More >
The combination of Sun and Oracle (Snorkel), is increasingly looking like the company that can never be. After it finally appeared to get through EU approvals , now Russia is threatening to block ... More >
When a catastrophic disaster happens like the one in Haiti, it should serve as a reminder to look at our own disaster-preparedness plans. This is so we can test them against the event we are observ... More >
Based on CES this year, it looks like the next decade will be defined by appliance-like devices and the cloud services that support them. PCs are off the bubble and smartphones, slates, smartbooks,... More >
I started out this series of posts by looking at the foundation for Microsoft , and any company, and arguing that Microsoft has a varied group of parties that it treats as if they were customers who... More >
In my last post I talked about the problem at the core of Microsoft’s flat performance last decade as being an inability to determine who its customers were. But I left out one well-defined group t... More >
One of the first things I read this morning as I opened my eyes to face the first week of 2010 was a piece in InformationWeek on the seven things Microsoft Must Do in 2010 . Each was a good... More >

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