If I had a nickel for every person who chatted me up at a cocktail party and
showed complete ignorance on the subject of positioning, this would be the last
blog of mine you would read, for I would be on a whisper jet headed toward an endless …
There is an old sight gag that IT managers have pulled on unsuspecting users for years. When users start piling new and changing requirements onto an application spec, the IT manager will write on the white board "fast, cheap, right" a…
Continue reading →Any time a news bulletin begins by quoting lawyers, you know it cannot be good news.
Hence the most predictable event of 2007 began with …
Interoperability is one of the sacred goals of IT, and even consumer computing. If operating systems, utilities, and applications do not work together, user productivity matches the low level I achieve on Friday around cocktail hour … which is…
Continue reading →Having recently earned my admission into the Sons of the American Revolution, and thus having a genetic predisposition for radical change, I have to temper myself whenever I see signs of subversion…
Continue reading →Tell a software developer that the real money has always been in services, and you beg being punched in the nose. Those software types are a violent bunch.
The truth is that s…
I do love playing technology markets. At times picking future technology survivors and corpses requires less brainpower than ever seeped from Paris Hilton’s alleged mind.
But right now, I wouldn’t handicap the virtualization market on a …
