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- Should Ballmer Be Concerned by Linux?
- Dennis Byron submits: Another grey "Grey Eagle" (or is it gray?), Jean-Louis Gassee says he's concerned about Steve Ballmer's getting distracted on his ride to work. He shouldn't be. The issue Jean-Louis mentions is the competition with free software. But the numbers don't back up the concern....
- External links 2008-10-26
- DoJ Concern over Oracle / Sun: An Alternate Java Theory
- Dennis Byron submits: Since the June 26 announcement that the U.S.-Democratic-party Department of Justice DoJ was taking Oracle's ORCL acquisition of Sun JAVA off the fast track because of a "narrow licensing issue" related to Java, I have posted my guess that it had something to do...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Google Fails to File Chrome OS with SEC
- Dennis Byron submits: I can’t find any useful IT investment research information on Google’s GOOG Chrome operating system from the source. The only meaningful thing Google has said publicly that I can find is via a blog post on July 7 that says: ...
- External links 2009-07-13
- Is TomTom Really an Open Source Software Company?
- Dennis Byron submits: Is Tom-Tom (TMOAF.PK) an open source company? Two separate blog posts—one on InfoWorld by respected tech journalist Bill Snyder and one by a self-proclaimed Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) zealot whose blog I’m not familiar with—popped up in my Google alerts on July...
- External links 2009-07-27
- Microsoft Isn't Serious About Classic Packaged Enterprise Applications
- Dennis Byron submits: In March 2008, I called ERP a poor second cousin at Microsoft MSFT. On July 27 I wrote that Oracle ORCL should consider selling the remnants of the J.D. Edwards business to Golden Gate/Infor because the loyal IBM AS/400 (System/36, System/3, etc. working backwards)...
- External links 2009-07-31
- Microsoft Hides Poor Services Performance from Investors' Eyes
- Dennis Byron submits: As described in my recent post, "Microsoft MSFT Puts 'IT Investment Research' Out of Business", Microsoft’s Windows Live and related services businesses are a train wreck. Back at the end of its 2009 fiscal year in July, Microsoft announced some reorganization changes for this...
- External links 2009-09-24
- Red Hat Stays Focused on Target Market
- Dennis Byron submits: Red Hat RHT executives briefed financial analysts October 6. The key question I brought to the session was, “Where does Red Hat stand against its previously announced plans to gain half of market share in server operating software (see Feb 14, 2008 entry) and...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Browser Market Loser Opera Should Be Careful What It Wishes For
- Dennis Byron submits: The failed Norwegian browser provider, Opera (OPESF.PK), says it is not sure about the Microsoft MSFT proposal for a European-Union (EU)-mandated “browser ballot” to be used with Windows 7 as an alleged means to lessen Microsoft MSFT Internet Explorer (IE) market power. According to...
- External links 2009-10-08
- Microsoft Investors Finally Get a Good Deal from EU Regulators
- Dennis Byron submits: In reading about the almost Microsoft MSFT agreement with the European Union (EU) announced October 7, I feel Microsoft investors have finally gotten a good deal from the EU regulators. The mounting opposition to the deal is my proof-point. Just as the Opera (OPESF.PK)...
- External links 2009-10-09
- MySQL Creators Duel Over Oracle's Sun Acquisition
- Dennis Byron submits: In dueling blogoshots released in October 2009, the two Finns most associated with the MySQL database software company, which they sold to Sun JAVA in 2008 for a bazillion markaas, are urging the European Union in opposite directions when it comes to Oracle’s ORCL...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Why Should Oracle Even Bother with the EU?
- Dennis Byron submits: With Oracle ORCL going to the mattresses with the European Union (EU) over its proposed Sun JAVA acquisition, many analysts are suggesting Oracle walk away from Sun. I am suggesting Oracle walk away from the EU. Larry Ellison should ask himself whether it is...
- External links 2009-11-12
- Why Oracle Should Leave Europe: A Look at the Numbers
- Dennis Byron submits: I said in my post on November 12 Larry Ellison should ask himself whether it is even worthwhile for the new Oracle ORCL/Sun JAVA combination to do business in the information technology (IT) backwater that is the European Union EU. Why go through the...
- External links 2009-11-13
- Don't Let Misleading Articles on DoJ Probe of Oracle / Sun Deal Influence Investments
- Dennis Byron submits: In a June 30 post I noted that there were a lot of wild theories starting to circulate about why the Obama Department of Justice DoJ is investigating the Oracle ORCL acqusition of Sun JAVA. The noise level has ratcheted up as the mainstream...
- External links 2009-07-02
- Is Red Hat a Meaningful Takeover Candidate?
- Dennis Byron submits: Just as I saw some rays of hope in Oracle’s fiscal-fourth-quarter bad news reported on June 23, I see some seeds of rain in the forecast in Red Hat’s RHT fiscal-first-quarter good news reported on June 24. Tout sheets like The Register and...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Following the Technology in Mortgage Securitization Mess
- Dennis Byron submits: In a recent blog post, I said that it was as important to follow the information technology (IT) to get to the bottom of the Madoff scandal as it was to follow the money in the Watergate scandal. It can't be rocket science....
- External links 2009-03-31
- Can Microsoft Catch Up with Cloud Computing?
- Dennis Byron submits: The Microsoft MSFT Windows Azure cloud computing press release talks about: “…leading the way in services infrastructure with innovative use of shipping containers as flexible and portable housing for servers, providing 10 times the density and dramatic savings in power usage.” by...
- External links 2008-10-28
- European Union Continues to Beat on Microsoft
- Dennis Byron submits: Perhaps there is hope that if my grandchildren work in Europe 20 years from now, they will have access to the advanced information technology (IT) of the day. Despite the relentless attack on Microsoft MSFT and others by Neelie Kroes of the European Union...
- External links 2008-11-16
- IBM Acquisition Further Limits IT User Virtualization Choices
- Dennis Byron submits: Back in June, I introduced you to Transitive via this interview with Transitive’s Vice President of Marketing Ian Robinson. The excitement for me was the cross-virtualization platform provider’s expanding distribution channel, in light of a trend to decreasing virtualization-software distribution options via Citrix’s CTRX...
- External links 2008-11-20
- Microsoft: Losing Market Share in a Non-Existent Browser Market?
- Dennis Byron submits: Every month, the technical press religiously reports on the state of the browser market, and who or who isn’t losing market share. This is a recent example from Computerworld, but a variation of this article appears across the spectrum, and covers data from what...
- External links 2009-01-05
- Does Google Care About PCs?
- Dennis Byron submits: I think the point of Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' report in Computerworld is that Google GOOG will market a desktop Linux using the version of Linux it has included in Android. If not, then the only thing Computerworld is saying is that Linux runs on...
- External links 2009-01-05
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