cloud

Observations on Kenexa purchase of Salary.com

September 1, 2010

Today Kenexa (KNXA) announced the planned purchase via tender of Salary.com (SLRY). On the plus side, the cloud technology space is begging for consolidation as companies find themselves using scores of vendors across their many business areas and processes. Companies are trying to broaden their offerings and companies are trying to consolidate their many vendors. [...]

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Why does Intel need the cow?

August 23, 2010

I was mildly surprised with the Intel purchase of McAfee, which is somewhat better than being bored by the Dell/3PAR deal. At least HP has come along and made the plain girl in the corner appear more interesting. Anyway, moving on to Intel/McAfee… Nobody refutes the fact that security is an extremely important aspect of [...]

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Microsoft’s Future is Hopeless with Steve Ballmer

June 4, 2010

It was just back in early March that Steve Ballmer gave his “for the cloud, we are all in” speech at the University of Washington and sent an email along those same lines to all Microsoft employees. Like many, I had more or less given up on Microsoft but thought that maybe the release of [...]

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Le Real Time Web Week

December 8, 2009

Thanks to Google this week already started off with a focus on the real-time web, based on mobility and new devices with sensors, cameras, microphones, HD displays and speakers.   On Monday Google presented a slew of new features and technologies aimed at improving search by location, by voice, and by sight.   When combined with enhanced [...]

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Where is Dell Innovation?

November 23, 2009

Dell showed the industry a new way to do business in personal computers.  It was revolutionary at the time and created a very large, very profitable franchise in computing.  A one trick pony is plenty when the trick is good enough.  Unfortunately the trick is no longer unique. There’s no point in rehashing the misfortunes [...]

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