Has anybody wondered how reliable so-called “independent research” is these days?You may not have noticed, but there were many occasions where research on the same topic by different research firms yields different results. That is to be expected, one may argue, because of the differences in the research methodoloy adopted and the sampling size used.… Read More »
Key message to customers: Whatever floats your boat. Not content to be left behind by the vision bandwagon, Dell has started to push its own agenda in the enterprise space. At a media briefing in Singapore in late October, Bruce Kornfeld, director of worldwide product marketing in Dell’s Product Group, touted the company’s Scalable Enterprise… Read More »
Which is worse? A marriage of convenience or a marriage of necessity? If pundits can have it their way, they would probably bet against both.Just for the purpose of illustration, let’s take a closer look at the tussle between The SCO Group and the Linux camp. To SCO, the open-source movement is probably a marriage… Read More »
Someone (it could be one of those bullish analysts) once said that content is, and always will be, king on the Internet. But that was during the heady days of the dotcom craze, when every commerce and information Web site seemed to be using content management (CM) systems to underpin their grand plans.When the dotcom… Read More »
Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I’ll be watching you— The Police, “Every Breath You Take” Remember George Orwell’s 1984? Forget the cumbersome technology depicted in this rather grim tale of a Big Brother society. If present trends continue, surveillance tools will be so… Read More »
Every merger comes with enormous execution headaches. The Hewlett Packard-Compaq union is certainly fraught with challenging hurdles. Particularly so at a time when just about everything else in the computing business – from revenues to profit margins – is getting smaller. Already, analysts are predicting that the massive product overlap, possible brand confusion and potential… Read More »