A Vampire Division is defined as a business unit that sucks value from a company but doesn’t return a comparable level of benefit. In short, it does more damage than good but often conceals that dama... More >
We've looked at some of the financial benefits associated with unified communications and most recently the launch of the UCIF , or Unified Communications Interoperability Forum. We’ve also talked... More >
This week the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF) was formed . It amazes me that in many communications areas, interoperability seems to be an afterthought rather than a requirement... More >
When a Valleywag blogger picked an e-mail fight with Steve Jobs this past weekend, Steve weighed in with arms swinging. The dialogue is worth reading because it says a lot about where Steve is tr... More >
Earlier this week, I posted my first impressions from EMC World . Throughout the event, I thought about Acadia, a new type of corporate construct (EMC/Cisco/VMware) that could redefine how large cor... More >
I'm convinced most technology providers don’t fully understand how slowly large companies move to adapt new technology and eliminate old. Back in the early '90s, we talked about eliminating tape for... More >
As mentioned in my earlier piece, the HP buyout of Palm was the explosion that would rock the computer industry. I pointed out why this was much more important than it seemed. With this purchase, H... More >
With the Palm acquisition, HP is clearly taking a path that is away from Microsoft but not toward Google. While this is part of a general trend, started by Apple and Microsoft, to vertically integra... More >

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