http://www.thommitchell.com Navigating through the intersections of business and technology Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:15:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/01/18/is-blackberry-the-new-novell/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/01/18/is-blackberry-the-new-novell/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:21:38 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=804 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 [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2010/01/18/is-blackberry-the-new-novell/feed/ 2 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/09/bring-out-your-dead-windows-xp-not-dead-yet/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/09/bring-out-your-dead-windows-xp-not-dead-yet/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:03:27 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=408 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”. To borrow from and mangle Shakespeare – “I come today [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/09/bring-out-your-dead-windows-xp-not-dead-yet/feed/ 1 http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/08/updates-revisiting-past-topics/ http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/08/updates-revisiting-past-topics/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:40:31 +0000 Thom http://www.thommitchell.com/?p=498 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. Mobile Phone Industry updates- AT&T signed up a record 3.2 million [...]]]> http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/08/updates-revisiting-past-topics/feed/ 0