Event Report: PDC10 Focuses Developers On Cloud And Devices Opportunity
Microsoft Bolsters Developer Tools To Inspire Innovation At the October 28th, 2010 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, CEO Steve Ballmer presided over 3 key announcements that affirm the software giant’s ambitions to retain and grow the mind share and market share of worldwide developers. In fact the 3 main announcements foreshadow Microsoft’s convergence in the five [...]
From Microsoft Monolith to Monopoly to Monocellular – as in Brand
Just two weeks ago when Microsoft’s brand had at least some value, the company launched its renewed efforts into mobile computing, namely Windows Mobile 7. No – wait, I think it’s just Windows Phone 7. Microsoft dropped "Mobile" in more ways than one, though I’m sure the irony is lost…
Windows is the dominant (Java) Developer OS: So what is Microsoft going to do about it?
Tweet Stephen wrote a great post based on data from our new RedMonk analytics platform the other day that set me thinking. Its easy to blithely assume that all developers use Macs these days, but the data doesn’t bear such a thesis out. Briefly, Ian Skerrett of Eclipse asserted that, according to Eclipse’s community survey [...]
SAS Bucks the Trade Show Trend
Trade shows have been dying for many years to the point that they have been all but totally supplanted by vendor sponsored conferences. The vendors have become adept at the logistics of hosting large numbers of people for upwards of a week in cities like San Francisco, Orlando, Chicago and Las Vegas to name a [...]
On SAP’s Q3 2010.
(Cross posted on my Gartner blog.) Here are some quick thoughts on SAP’s Q3 performance. It was was okay. It wasn’t awesome, but it wasn’t grim either. Have a look here for what the FT says. The headline number of 20% revenue growth seems impressive but strip out the Sybase numbers and it is very [...]
SAS Unveils New Analytics Apps
It’s often hard to maintain high visibility in the marketplace if you happen to be a private company and for good reason. Private companies tend to be small and they often do not attract the attention of the financial press precisely because the financial press thrives on the transparency and numbers that small companies prefer [...]
