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HP just hired a new CEO and chairman, both hand-selected over the objections of Mark Hurd’s heir apparent, to battle for cloud computing against Oracle and IBM. I don't know any two people more capa... More >
The next big phase of the tablet market is expected to be in business because employees are dragging in their iPads despite IT managers' objections. Though Apple clearly leads in the consumer market,... More >
Governments tend to be reactive, and if any market gets too much regulatory attention, the tendency is to overregulate and possibly kill it. The United States owned the oil market coming into the las... More >
Part of the fun of this job is being able to visit labs and see things that few others get to see. The IBM Almaden Lab in San Jose, Calif., is particularly fun because the entrance that the GPS syste... More >
In the drama between Oracle and HP, there seems to be a lot of information that just doesn’t make sense. If we connect the dots, another potential explanation emerges. We’ll call this the “backstory”... More >
Hewlett-Packard's past two CEOs have been outsiders. It was a company in financial trouble struggling for relevance the first time and struggling for financial stability the second. This time the co... More >
There is an ongoing antitrust probe among a number of high-tech companies about employee anti-poaching agreements. These agreements, typically between large companies, represent a pact not to compe... More >
In what could be seen as the CEO equivalent of piling on, IBM’s Sam Palmisano was sharply critical of HP in a Wall Street Journal piece. He lit into HP for the way it handled the removal of CEO Ma... More >
As markets change, dominant companies lose that dominance. That rule has seldom been broken, but at Intel’s Developer Conference this week, Intel is making a solid effort. While the PC market is fo... More >
CRN is running a slideshow on the five reasons Mark Hurd will pay off for Oracle, but because there are two sides to every argument – this is the season for election debates and I don’t get to part... More >
The whole Larry Ellison/Mark Hurd thing has got a lot of folks scratching their heads. The causes could be anything from Larry having a senior moment ( IT Business Edge's Mike Vizard is clearly on ... More >
I’m fascinated by the sequence of events that put HP’s now ex-award winning CEO in as a subservient member of Oracle’s executive team, possibly positioned as Larry Ellison’s successor. A lot has ha... More >
Paying a sharp premium for 3PAR, HP has purchased a core technology that should position the company well against what is believed to be the biggest pool of potential revenue for this decade, the v... More >
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