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Part of the problem with being an analyst is that we are expected to think as if we were living five years in the future. While the market is undergoing a recovery at the moment, I was recentl... More >
I get to go to a lot of events and I can see which folks really put the effort into making what they are presenting special and those that either offloaded the effort to some flunky or waited until t... More >
What a services unit gives you is higher customer loyalty and, assuming you do it right, a hedge against bad years. What it takes away is some of your agility (it adds size) and rapid financial perfo... More >
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I was talking to a security specialist from one of the largest aerospace companies in the world and he told an interesting story. Fortunately, it wasn’t about his own company so I can share it. It qu... More >
For those that follow Intel or EMC or are interested in corporate governance, the house cleaning that went on there yesterday is actually kind of interesting. There are three aspects of this announ... More >
Ever since the Sun/Oracle merger was announced, IBM has been carving into the Sun installed base like a starving dog through a juicy steak. Recently, it looked like HP was positioning to be th... More >
At one time companies bought cars for employees and it was a standard perk. This shifted over time to being a personal purchase. Cell phones, with some exceptions, remained a personal purchase that c... More >
IDC’s server numbers were recently released, and while HP remains dominant in several key areas, IBM actually came out on top overall -- largely, I think, because of its early and aggressive moves... More >
Carly Fiorina, HP’s ex-CIO, is positioning to run on the Republican ticket for one of California’s Senate seats in the upcoming election. Opponents are using HP’s reported sales through dist... More >
With Steve Jobs back and clearly motivated to show that he is running the company again, Apple appears to be executing at an incredibly high level at the moment. It appears he is personally managin... More >
The idea of free software largely came up during the dot-com years when a generation of erstwhile college graduates who evidently skated through their business and economics classes decoupled product... More >
A couple of weeks ago I had lunch with Jeff LaValley to catch up and talk about old times. Jeff and I worked for IBM Internal Audit on a team specifically created to deal with acquisitions and proble... More >
I’ve always been a big believer in practical experience. This came to mind this morning when I read an article about a cat getting a GED . I’m kind of sorry I didn’t think of this stunt after... More >
Watching the “ debate ” over the President’s attempt to fix what is clearly a crippled health care system and what appears to be a plan that might actually make it worse, it seems that the focus is o... More >
Windows 7 is about to come out, so why in the world would I want to write about the next generation of Windows? One, because we already know much of what we need to know about Windows 7. It is better... More >
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