Rob Enderle

Sometimes you have to step back and applaud a move that someone makes even though it is founded in false logic. Carl Icahn is evidently channeling the French philosopher Pascal in his letter to Dell shareholders asking them to vote against the Michael Dell deal now effectively blessed by both the ISS and the Chancery […]

A lot of questionable behavior seems to be coming from some of the more affluent male population these days, but the recent Chancery Court decision against Carl Icahn from last month takes the cake. If I read this correctly, Icahn is basically arguing that Dell’s board should be removed because they didn’t want to sell […]

At the Aspen Ideas Festival this week, a ton of scientists, artists, executives, and other smart folks are talking about the future. One of the segments is on smart cars, not the brand but driverless cars, and how they will change not only how we drive but how we live. They could obsolete most light […]

I was an early user of Microsoft Surface RT, in fact, it was my carry-around laptop for nearly two months. I truly loved several things about the device, including its weight and price, and one thing I truly hated, the email client. For the life of me, I could not figure out why Microsoft would […]

This week was lab day at Intel, a company that uses its labs much more strategically than most. There really aren’t that many large lab efforts in the world anymore because, while many created amazing things, those things remained in the labs, never making it out to product. In other cases, the labs were focused […]

Meg Whitman replaced Todd Bradley as the head of the PC unit with Dion Weisler this week. This is actually a very smart move. Often one of the first things a new CEO does is build a team that is loyal to him or her, and it is actually considered a best practice. However, this […]

Sometimes a company makes a move you simply have to applaud. It was just announced that Tom Reilly has been selected as CEO for Cloudera. Reilly is a well-seasoned executive who has successfully built and sold technology companies several times in his career. But it isn’t just the selection of Reilly that is important; with […]

Yesterday at IBM Edge, IBM showcased products and customers who spoke to how IBM could make and save customers money. Today, IBM is more focused on how IBM technologies are changing the future. Yesterday was about fixing today’s problems, today’s session is about how IBM is helping customers anticipate the future. First day was tactical, […]

This week I’m at IBM Edge. This show has become impressively successful, going from around 2,000 attendees last year to nearly 5,000 this year. IBM opened the event with a rather impressive percussion band both on stage and marching up the aisles. This helps pull the audience’s attention to the stage and in many ways […]

One of the key presentations at TechEd 2013 has to do with Windows 8.1, formerly code-named Windows Blue. This is also the coming out party for the new small 8.1-inch-class Windows tablets. The promise is the same user interface and same apps on devices that range from 8.1 inches to 30 inches and beyond, coupled […]

This is an interesting decade so for Microsoft, with interesting not necessarily indicating a good thing. The client market, solidly Windows in the 1990s, ended last decade largely owned by Apple and Google on a class of devices, smartphones and tablets that didn’t exist in much volume when Microsoft was clearly dominant. Now the trend […]

This is my second of two pieces focused on Dell’s Annual Analyst event. Dell’s CMO, Karen Quintos, held a round table to talk about how Dell is using analytics to create solutions and address customer needs worldwide. On stage with her: Monique Bonner, VP Global Enterprise Services and Software Integrated Marketing, Aongus Hegarty, President EMEA, […]