GLG News by IT Services and Business Process Outsourcing Experts (North America)

Citrix will get a share of the virtualization market, but not enough to threaten VMWare’s domination.  Citrix “may” see a reasonable ROI on their $500M investment in XenSource, but it’s not likely to be comparable to EMC’s investment in VMWare.

Microsoft failed to get the ISO to recognize their Office Open XML as an ISO standard. They still have chances to change that vote, but the prospects don’t look promising for them.

The big will continue to get bigger; there is very little doubt about that trend continuing. The question will be who does it better? Financial institutions prefer to buy technology from large established providers. The SOX requirements to demonstrate a significant effort on vendor management drives...

Virtualization is moving from servers to desktops, but in a fragmented and disorganized fashion. The ubiquitous PC will not go away, but there remains plenty of room for a variety of desktop virtualization solutions.

It is wonderful that President Bush's plan to help the disenfranchised keep their homes, and in some (albeit, few) cases, this program will work. But like the cut in the commercial lending rates, this is more symbolic than helpful, and the true problems will persist after the assistance package is ...

1. Recruiting quality executives is first wave of Social networking. 2. Software as a service offers future social network.

SAP needs to make this case go away. Oracle wants to milk it as long as possible. The longer the case drags on and the bigger it gets, the worse the effects on SAP.

For years now, the Mortgage and Commercial Lending arena has been the subject of great debate as to whether sound credit decisions were being made. Now, finally, the proof of careless lending practices are coming to light: the question at hand is how will we deal with the fallout?

1.  Much recent focus has been on cleaning up past decisions.  2. When will Dell start to grow and innovate with a passion as they did earlier in the decade?

Now that Microsoft has saturated the OS and office productivity markets, they are attempting to move upstream into higher-margin businesses. There is vast untapped potential for BI, and Microsoft is well positioned to take a big chunk of that new business.