End of an Era at Infosys
Yesterday, N R Narayana Murthy retired from Infosys. In a touching farewell in Bangalore, friends and colleagues, present and past, bade him goodbye. There were breaking voices amongst the speakers and moist eyes in the audience. It was a great send-off for a great leader. To Indians, everywhere, Narayana Murthy, means something special. For those [...]
Big Company Customers: Be wary of Big M&A, Big Executive Change, and Big Bad Quarters
It hasn’t even been a year since I suggested things might not go swimmingly for WebOS and now they’re discontinuing it. Such is the life of products at large organizations when directions are being changed. Apparently they’re also planning to disgorge the PC business. Shades of IBM’s moves not so long ago. For those watching [...]
Good for HP (with a but!)
Last week the IT industry had a major bombshell. HP announced it’s intention to get out of the PC business, drop it’s WebOS smartphone and TouchPad products and buy enterprise software company Autonomy. If you don’t recognize Autonomy they are a major success story born out of research at Cambridge University. Founded in 1996 they [...]
HTML5 – A Wonder Drug
I was reading up on some of the commentary surrounding Amazon’s release of an HTML5 reader, one of the best comes from Constellation’s Charles Brett: Amazon’s announcement of its Kindle Cloud Reader, based around HTML 5, is a wonder of irony. Apple has successfully been taking 30% of purchases made via anything bought through an [...]
The More Things Change…
I’ve finally gotten around to reading Steve’s Blank’s The Four Steps to the Epiphany these past few weeks, and now just caught his recent blog post Bonfire of the Vanities. Both are highly-recommended for all marketers – if you haven’t read either, start with the blog post (it’s shorter). I still remember meeting Steve in the ’90′s [...]
