Good news for Cisco channel members from Ingram Micro
here
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/19/20090 comments
Another one is biting the dust. As you know if you've been reading industry news at all this week, IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems.
The Wall Street Journal
, as it tends to do,
broke the story
-- but if you want to read the whole article, you'll have to subscribe online. There's no need at this point, though, because there are
plenty of takes
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/19/20090 comments
If cloud computing in the enterprise were, well, a cloud, it would be forming in the distance, just coming over the horizon. Sure, some companies are making money with it and others are saving money by using it, but it's still an evolving model.
Two pieces of news this week showed the negative and positive potential of cloud computing. Let's start with the bad news, or at least with the negative-potential bit. Azure crashed late last week.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/18/20090 comments
Yeah, times are sort of tough, but not as tough as analysts thought they would be...which is
good news for Adobe
.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/18/20090 comments
Apparently, Chrome
isn't exactly polished
and Firefox (your editor's choice) isn't burning as brightly as it once did. Oh, and, uh, not many people are going on Safaris or listening to Opera, either.
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/18/20092 comments
OK, it's kind of a gotcha headline, but part of the stimulus plan for the Seattle area really does include a "
bridge to Microsoft
."
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/17/20090 comments
It's St. Patrick's Day, so there must be a party somewhere. (Keep in mind that we're writing from suburban Boston, where the party just sort of rages on all around us this time of year.) And who likes to
rock the party
? Cisco does, apparently.
Not content with being an absolute monster in networking hardware, Cisco is now...a server company. Or at least a provider of blade servers for big datacenters, meaning the company is now in competition with the likes of HP, IBM and Dell in that space.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 03/17/20091 comments
The anticipation that built for Vista was the manufactured kind, created mostly by marketing types and by newsletters like this one that got sucked into the hype only to end up disillusioned. But the Windows 7 hype that's building is more organic, coming from beta testers, partners and IT professionals. Anyway, Windows 7 got some bug fixes and some new updates this week. More details
here
Posted by Lee Pender on 03/17/20090 comments