GLG News by IT Infrastructure Software Experts

• Microsoft owns the desktop because of applications • Windows will be displaced when Office, Outlook/Exchange, etc. are open • Look for MS to hunker down on proprietary application stuff

Virtualization, together with advances in hardware, will dramatically change the face of the data center. Change will come slowly, but it will come. “The data center is the computer” will be the operating paradigm eventually.

1.  Apple makes and sells a user experience.  2. Google would make it easier for phones to be sold because the cost to the consumer would be less.

1.  Mash ups, business process management, and Unified communication show the consolidation of information delivery.  2. Virtualization, web platform improvement and changes in computing fabric provide the backbone for growth in IT delivery.  3. 2008 seems to be a year of implementation...

With many big banks such as BoA, Wachovia and Citigroup reporting record breaking losses in the 3Q, there shouldn't be any less spending for new bank technology in the future. We may see consolidation of banking & trading divisions, but technology will come to the forefront in spending from ban...

As much as 20% of the audience for television's most popular shows are skipping the commercial content.  This high number is of great concern to the marketing group.  This group is questioning the effectiveness of TV advertising.    With the advent of digital video recorders,...

Mobile service, and particularly International mobile service, is a hugely profitable market for mobile carriers. Consequently they are fighting hard to prevent VoIP from entering that market. If Skype can finally get into this market it will be the first movement in a landslide.

Microsoft’s latest offering sounds the death knell for traditional PBX’s. Unified (audio, video, email, IM) communications will be normal in 3-5 years. Microsoft may not dominate this market, but they will have a huge impact.

1.  By being part of Oracle BEA can compete better with IBM Websphere and fend off Redhat's JBOSS.  2.  It may be cheaper for Oracle to buy BEA than to spend the marketing dollars to compete with BEA.

Bank Technology has seen an expansion in new technology that has been built on old technology. It is not just the bigger organizations but the smaller entrepreneurs that are in the running.