SAN FRANCISCO — In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs based on its
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This is a brilliant idea. Most innovation, well, isn’t: it is “unnovation,” or innovation that fails to create authentic, meaningful value. The biggest stumbling block
Read moreDepartment of hell freezing over
I have also learned something about my country. I run a global company, but I am a citizen of the U.S. I believe that a
Read moreVirtualization versus Physicalization
Data on the overhead of virtualization is hard to come by. Rackable proposes an interesting alternative that they call physicalization. I wonder whether the CPU
Read moreOrganizational man
Irving Wladawsky-Berger started working at IBM in 1970 and retired in 2007 with what is, to me, the smartest corporate response to Linux/OpenSource as his
Read moreThe train to the terminal station
Digital Equipment Corporation Silicon Graphics Corporation Sun Microsystems One might get the impression that the boards of directors of technology companies have as much ability
Read moreThe cell phone market in brief
Although the payoff of a small niche may be less than that of a large, growing market, the competion may often also be less intense.
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IBM dropped its offer to acquire Sun for $7billion. Sun has now a series of projects for which it has large costs, but no clear
Read moreSoftware comes from the sky and labor is overpaid: NOT!
John Dvorak concludes an otherwise sensible article on the effect of Linux/Office-clone packages combined with netbooks with the following: If Intel can provide users with
Read moreAIG and me
The New York Times has an article explaining the business model of the failed insurer AIG that is giving me a new perspective on why
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