Apple iPad vs. Android Xoom: Judgment day arrives
Summary: A personal journey deep into the heart of the iPad and Xoom tablets. Which side won? I’ve been an iPad fan since Apple first released the ubiquitous tablets; with instant-on and long battery life, these devices are an ideal traveler’s companion. This post describes iPad love, Android lust, and a reluctant return back to Apple. [...]
Oracle Reports Q4 2011 / FY2011 Results – First $10B Quarter
Oracle reported its Q4 and FY2011 year end results and once again posted impressive numbers including its first quarter with over $10B in total revenue and first quarter with over $1B revenue in applications. New software licenses grew 19% year over year and improved on the FY 2010 growth rate of 14%. Oracle’s business was [...]
Any Hardware Company Not Investing Big in Cloud is Nuts
If the Cloud is here to stay, and the trend to move apps into the Cloud is only going to get stronger, then any hardware or infrastructure company that doesn’t invest big in the Cloud is nuts. The problem these vendors face is “Cloud as disintermediator”. Companies that buy into the Cloud are letting the [...]
HP’s Pad UI Printer: We Need More Thinking Like This!
What a fabulous idea: spend $399 for a pad and get a free printer! That’s the idea behind HP’s Photosmart eStation printer, and I love it. In fact, we need more thinking like this. Why continue to offer difficult hardware pushbutton UI on so many devices when a pad interface lets you offer a much richer [...]
Is Oracle An Apps Company that Sells Hardware, or a Hardware Company that Dabbles in Apps?
It’s open season in the punditocracy on Oracle, as the move to put Mark Hurd in Oracle’s corner and jettison Charles Phillips makes a helluva welcome-back-to-work present for anyone who actually took Labor Day off from their daily labors. What’s obvious from where I sit is that Oracle is now more firmly a hardware company [...]
The Kno is Not a Tablet. It’s a Workout Device
Seriously. At 5 and a half pounds it’s not exactly a lightweight tablet you would want to hold for hours. I have a very simple test for you: if you have an average 14”-15” laptop around, flip it open, hold it vertically, just like this: … and tell me how long you could comfortably hold [...]
Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Tech Budget (Part 2) – Cloud Computing
Welcome to a part 2 of a multi-part series on The Software Insider Tech Ecosystem Model. Subsequent posts will apply the model to these leading vendors:
IBM zEnterprise and The Reintegration of Everything.
IBM’s just launched its new zEnterprise server at a very interesting time for the market. So interesting in fact that’s its very hard indeed to sum up all the swirls and currents currently roiling enterprise IT. Cloud (public and private), consumerisation of IT, Big Data, devops, NoSQL and did I remember to say… cloud? IBM [...]
Research Report: The Upcoming Battle For The Largest Share Of The Technology Budget (Part 1)
Is your technology provider a hardware vendor or a software vendor? Does your System Integrator now provide solutions in the cloud? These questions will continue as models converge. Hardware, software, and system integration vendors must reinvent new models of revenue. The economic recession has forced business model shifts at the major technology companies.
IBM’s New zEnterprise – Quick Analysis
A new mainframe that pulls in Unix and Linux servers – does it prevent enough IT mess to move from x86?
