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Rob Enderle

January 2010

January 28, 2010

Snorkel (Sun + Oracle) vs. IBM: The Enterprise Battle of This Decade?

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 >

January 25, 2010

At the Core of Why Apple is Outperforming Microsoft

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 >

January 21, 2010

Apple Tablet Dance: Rise of a More Powerful Apple or a New Decline?

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 >

January 18, 2010

Sun-Oracle: Death by Bureaucracy

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 >

January 15, 2010

Haiti Earthquake: Revisit Your Disaster-Preparedness Plans

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 >

January 12, 2010

Get Ready for the Post-PC Era

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 >

January 8, 2010

How to Turn Microsoft Around: A Primer, Part 3

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 >

January 6, 2010

How to Turn Microsoft Around: A Primer, Part 2

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 >

January 4, 2010

How to Turn Microsoft Around: A Primer, Part 1

  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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