Posted on July 12th, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
Linux is easy to learn, highly capable of fulfilling a typical computer user’s needs, and 100 percent free. So why is it that Linux still has such a miniscule share of the overall desktop market? Maybe its gratis nature has been keeping it down. It seems that when consumers don’t know enough about a product, [...]
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Filed under: Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, Innovative Business Models, Management, linux, open source
Posted on May 26th, 2010 by
murtaza
Companies, in the ‘historic’ days, based their supply chains on a simple formula: ‘Push in more and the supply is gonna make its own demand’. Today, supply has been deprived of this ‘demand-creating autonomy’. A lot of things along with higher availability are required to push up demands. Advertising, broadcasting, promoting and not to forget [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market
Posted on March 3rd, 2010 by
ali.zaidi
Dries Buytaert of Drupal and Acquia is warning that Software as a Service is becoming a threat to open source and that clouds could create the same vendor lock-in customers sought to avoid with open source.
Even where SaaS companies let customers take back their data, they often don’t let them take the code underlying it, [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Drupal, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, SOA & Agile Applications, SaaS, Software Development, open source
Posted on December 8th, 2009 by
Zohaib
Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the “black screen of death”, which affects its latest operating system.
The error means that users of Windows 7 see a totally black screen after logging on to the system. The firm said it was looking into reports that suggest its latest security update was [...]
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Filed under: Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7
Posted on July 9th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
Google is jumping into Microsoft Windows territory — and threatening to change the way personal computers work — with its own version of a computer operating system.
The company says the forthcoming Google Chrome OS will revolutionize how computers operate, putting more emphasis on Web functionality, making computers faster and opening them up to helpful tinkering [...]
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Filed under: Agile Applications, Business Dynamics, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, Google Chrome, Google OS, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsing, Windows 7
Posted on March 18th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
It has been a dark couple of years for Microsoft in the desktop operating systems business. The uncontested leader in that market for close to two decades, the company sullied its reputationn with the delivery of Windows Vista, which proved a crashing disappointment from the moment it stumbled out of the starting blocks. Despite expensive [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market
Posted on January 26th, 2009 by
ali.zaidi
Obama seems to be the most tech-driven leader following John. F. Kennedy. Recently got his BlackBerry customized for security purposes and to eliminate concerns like e-mail could be hacked or GPS used to locate president, phone capable of encrypting voice conversations, handling classified documents.
The most significant item provided by Obama is the Technology and Innovation [...]
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Filed under: Business Dynamics, Enterprise Agility, Enterprise Software, Global Technology Market, financial crisis
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