GLG News by IT Infrastructure Software Experts

Nokia’s move represents a paradigm shift in the mobile music market, and potentially in the overall market. This may represent the beginning of the end for pay services such as Apple’s iTunes, and could be an entirely new way of acquiring music. Good-bye, CDs?

1.  Motorola was one of the early pioneers of Cell Phones but has not had a hit in over a year. 2.  Can Motorola keep up with the innovation pace?

Verizon’s move represents the first major chink in the stone wall of locked mobile phones in the US. It seems unlikely that Verizon is really going to be totally open in the near future, but just the announcement represents a major step in that direction. Other carriers will be forced to follow, and...

As if there isn’t enough bad news about the economy, here I am adding to the heap before it even happens. As much as I don’t like bad news, what’s worse is bad news that comes as a surprise. So be prepared. Just follow the facts, and then draw your own conclusions. We may see the bank tech sector face...

1.  There are no compelling reasons to upgrade to Vista 2.  Security within email has improved causing less upgrade needs

With the recent acquisitions, traditional BI seems to be moving to the big companies (IBM, Oracle, SAP). Smaller, pure-play BI vendors must innovate and find new market niches to survive. “Operational” BI and better usability could buy a few years of success for them.

As firms partner with VMware (including Microsoft) it begs the question of where does Microsoft actually stand on it's virtualization efforts. The pendulum appears to be swinging away from an in house solution that compete's with VMware at the high end.

Continuing development of online business will exert extra pressure to ensure that all developing area's of risk are protected. Social engineering is an increasing risk for corporate security as well as personal security. The web becomes as risky as email for security risks

1. Competition is heating up in the virtualization space 2. Buyers are the big winners

1. Oracle has bought a lot of companies recently which has raised integration concerns. 2. Will Oracle be able to integrate all of the applications to sustain a competitve edge?