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Is RIM Blackberry the New Novell?
Posted by Thom in Business, IT, Technology on January 18th, 2010
The big red Novell N used to control the enterprise market.
In 2010 – Blackberry is to Apple as Novell was to Microsoft circa 1994. As hard as it may be to remember back that far, Microsoft was once an upstart that was derided for not being substantial enough to effectively serve business server and networking needs – suitable only for stand-alone PCs. Novell was seen as the proper choice for enterprises looking to network resources together. Blackberry is in the same position today with regards to email-enabled smartphones and making many of the same mistakes that Novell made.
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Bring Out Your Dead! Windows XP – Not Dead Yet
Posted by Thom in Business, IT, Technology on November 9th, 2009
As much as Microsoft would love to put Windows XP onto the cart of Dead OS's, Windows XP isn't dead yet.
Fans of Monty Python’s Holy Grail will remember the infamous “Bring out your dead – I’m not dead yet” sketch. With the release of Windows 7, Windows XP is the guy saying “I’m not dead yet”, while Microsoft is the guy saying “you will be”.
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Updates – Revisiting Past Topics
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology on November 8th, 2009
Update columns are the crutch of columnists, both on and off-line.
A column of updates is every columnist’s favorite crutch when ideas aren’t flowing and blogging is no different. But of course, I am doing an update column because I think that some of the previous topics I’ve written about earlier are worth updating, not because I’m suffering from a lack of ideas.
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