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.
Read moreVenture capital, short term, and India
From Wladawsky-Berger’s blog entry on Carlota Perez’s analysis in 2005: She mentions three particular structural tensions that we need still to work out in order
Read moreThe ultimate snarky geeky Sun FAIL post
Well, it seems our friends at Sun have decided that their Spicetm Enhanced brains are completely sufficient to create an entirely new – but far
Read moreSuns tracking SGI
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 moreSGI assets to Rackable – the mighty have fallen
SGI has filed for banruptcy and Rackable has bid $25M for the assets – which through the miracle of bankruptcy law can now be peeled
Read morePower Systems Reliability Challenges
It is becoming more common for fire ants to build nests in pad mounted equipment. Their nesting materials can cause short circuits, the ants can
Read moreHappy Birthday to Emmy Noether
March 23. So much for you, Larry Summers, mere economist.
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
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