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Gartner's Ten Key Predictions For 2007
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-13
Gartner's Ten Key Predictions For 2007
Along with a short commentary by Lundquist
This is prediction season and Gartner - which holds one of the top spots in the prediction business - has passed
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Deal of the week: Laptop Computer for $25,000
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-13
Deal of the week: Laptop Computer for $25,000
Not only do you get to spend $25,000 for an old (and stolen) laptop, you also get to hire a consultant and spend your holiday season basking in an embarrassing limelight.
The financial consulting firm Ameriprise has reportedly reached an agreement with
the top technology users in 2006
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-13
Who were the top technology users in 2006? Too often picking the top CIO, or CTO, or best user whatever the title becomes a popularity contest. Too often you end up finding a company that showed a lot of growth during the year and then picking the CIO from that
five things to think about as you prepare your company's technology roadmap for 2007.
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-13
Thinking about 2007? More likely you are in the budgeting, fidgeting and fighting for investment dollars for next year's budget rather than just thinking
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Is your company flat
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-13
Is your company flat? Is your company paranoid? Do your managers manage by walking around? All those terms have always been printed in boldface type in the consultant's lexicon, but aside from fodder of Dilbert cartoons, those terms are usually just that, terms instead of actions. But as the power
Stumbling giants
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-13
I wrote this last spring, good call if I do say so myself
Stumbling giants. Consider this: Microsoft recently said they are going to dip into their massive savings to put an extra $2 billion or so into the fight against Google. And this: Intel is going to revamp the
Comdex remembered
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-13
Was there something missing from your technology experience last week? Did you get the strange feeling that you should really be wandering around garish, over the top trade booths listening to vendors spew promise after false promise? Did you think that the only really appropriate way to get from one
Support and Services Matter
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-12
Yesterday, a blog post I read from rPath CEO Billy Marshall piqued my interest. Marshall dismissed the idea that open source software firms can be successful on the strength of their service and support offerings--a
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The Biggest Technology Trends of 2006
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-06
The biggest technology trends of 2006 fit neatly into several buckets. I'd label those buckets as technology that was visible to all, technology only visible to the interested few and technology that
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No boohoos for Yahoo!
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-06
Yahoo! is in the midst of reorganizing into three divisions, unloading some execs and all caught up in claiming that it will now develop new focus. Am I the only one that believes Yahoo! got into trouble becaue its
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Give Novell a Break
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-11-20
I just read the Open Letter to the Community from Novell's probably rather flummoxed CEO Ron Hovsepian, and if you're someone who's been wringing your hands over the collaboration and patents pact that Novell and Microsoft announced recently, you should read it too.I sort of blew off the deal when
Installing Vista RTM on VMware
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-11-09
During our recent Vista tests, we came across a bug in the Vista installer that prevented us from installing the OS onto VMware using an iso image of Vista. The OS booted normally for us from an iso image, but then complained about not having a driver for the virtual
Thoughts on VMware's Virtualization on OS X Demo
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-09-08
Yesterday I dropped by the Four Seasons Hotel to check out VMware's public demo of its in-development virtualization software for OS X. I watched an Intel Mac Mini with 2GB of RAM run Windows XP within OS X, more or less the same way VMware Workstation or Player runs Windows
What the Heck Does "Socialize IP Ownership" Mean?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2005-11-14
I read a blog entry today by Shai Agassi, president of the product and technology group at SAP, in which he sought to set the record straight concerning his opinions toward open source. Last week, Agassi made some comments about open source software and development that some interpreted as negative.
