GLG News by Business Intelligence Software Experts

Many technology companies depend on cheap offshore labor to control their labor costs.  As the dollar continues to weaken those costs are escalating.  Similarly, offshoring companies depend on selling services in the US, and the weakening dollar makes those services more expensive and will...

1.  Microsoft is planning another operating system in a few years, so why upgrade. 2.  Microsoft seems to have lost the operating system was on mobile devices to Apple

Novell’s last quarterly results show an impressive turnaround in their business, but the bulk of their revenues are still from legacy products.  While SuSE is doing much better, largely due to the Microsoft deal, there’s still a long way to go for the new products to provide Novell’s overall g...

Oracle would like to be a leader both in SaaS and premises software.  The latest release of Siebel CRM On Demand is their attempt to conquer both worlds and ensure their prized enterprise customers don’t defect to Salesforce.com.  This release will likely have limited impact on Salesforce.com...

● In a perfect world all users would immediately install any patches or upgrades that would enhance the security of their systems.  ● However, many users, especially in home or home office environments, are reluctant to change something that seems to work.  ● Of course, in a perfect world...

1.  Faster bandwidth leads to more options for remote workers.  2. Support for remote workers give IT executives more flexibility.

VMWare has long dominated the virtualization market, but with Citrix’ purchase of XenSource it has the tools and the motivation to take a portion of that market.  VMWare has excellent products, but is vulnerable on pricing.  Citrix will be a strong competitor and will be putting pressure on...

HP’s good news story continues quarter after quarter.  2008 promises to be a year of increasing challenges to their good news, with Dell rebounding and the overall economic outlook gloomy.  Some day HP’s growth via market share gains and cost cutting will end.  Will that day be in 20...

This suit was always about corporate image, rather than specific damages.  The longer and bigger that Oracle can make the suit, the more adverse publicity SAP gets.  Mediation is therefore a big win for SAP, unless Oracle is able to dig up more dirt.

* No one can be forced to migrate * Oracle is a business and so long as it can make money supporting products it will do so which is good news for investors. * As the industry consolidates into an oligopoly the amount it will charge for support will increase which is better news for investors....