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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.

Mr. Ross' acquisition of American Home Mortgage's servicing unit is a bold attempt to continue his legacy of "turnarounds" in the business arena. Like Merrill Lynch's purchase of First Franklin, Ross' move may disprove the adage "when there's blood in the streets, buy real estate", and prove the "Greater...

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.

Microsoft’s executives continue to test the waters to see if they can scare people away from Red Hat Linux. Whether or not they ever attempt to make good on these threats will likely depend on the reaction they get. If they ever believe they can get away with it, they will certainly sue someone.

The evidence continues to mount that Vista is not going to be successful any time soon. Despite the high numbers Microsoft is proud to announce, the reality (at least for enterprises) just gets uglier with time. Could this be the first Windows that is completely skipped by enterprises?

The most recent round of virtualization technology has been highlighted by the dynamic emergence of VMware as one of the hottest products around. Of course virtualization has been around a long time both on the mainframe (IBM) and the desktop (Citrix). But why has this latest round of products grabbed...

Nothing will inspire support for net neutrality like potential censorship. It seems likely that public pressure will prevent AT&T, Verizon and others from actually enforcing widespread censorship, but the threat is chilling. Small-scale censorship will likely continue absent publicity for each event....

1. Green computing can save a lot of money and differentiate Web companies. 2. A chance for CIO's to look like a business leader

Red Hat’s Linux business continues to grow and thrive. Novell’s SuSE Linux business is also growing well, albeit from a much smaller base. This shows the Linux business model is successful, despite moves from Microsoft and Oracle.

1. Can Intel re-create the Centrino for cell phones? 2. Will the US cell phone carriers be willing?