Recent Articles
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Too Much of a Good (Windows) Thing?
The Windows team likes to pride itself on holding its cards close to the vest. But sometimes that strategy backfires, as it did this week on the Longhorn front. Microsoft execs have been making a concerted effort not to talk publicly about Longhorn. But that hasn’t stopped others from doing so. And this week, there…
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Will Partners Get Crushed in Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger?
As Oracle’s 14,400-strong partner program gears up to swallow the much smaller PeopleSoft partner community, some say Oracle’s biggest challenge may well be its history of dicey relations with its own partner ecosystem. “Oracle has only recently gotten back into the religion of partner management in a big way,” said Joshua Greenbaum, a principal at…
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Some (of many) Ways to Make Money
If all or parts of your company still have a time-and-materials business model, congratulations for having survived the last three years. But don’t rest on your laurels, because you are still in trouble. If you aren’t convinced, see my article, Does Your Business Model Make Sense?, in which I summarized just a few of the…
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Notes, Domino Take Stage
IBM is expected to launch a major new release of its flagship Lotus Notes and Domino messaging and collaboration platform at its Lotusphere conference next week. The release strengthens the ties between Domino and the next-generation Workplace platform. Workplace has been the focus of the last three Lotusphere events, but the big news next week…
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HP Combines Printer, PC Units
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced Friday that it is combining its printing and PC business units. The move combines HP’s Imaging and Printing Group—responsible for printers, supplies, digital cameras and projectors—with its Personal Systems Group—which handles desktop and notebook PCs and handheld computers. Vyomesh Joshi, formerly executive vice president of IPG, will head up the new group,…
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Why JP Morgan Chase Really Dropped IBM
A little more than two years ago, JP Morgan Chase & Co. signed a $5 billion, seven-year agreement with ibm for computer services. Under the outsourcing pact, 4,000 members of the bank’s technology staff would go over to ibm. Twenty-one months later, in August 2004, the bank canceled the contract. The outsourced employees would return…
