GLG News by Microsoft Vista OS Experts

VMWare is doing great, so how could they be in trouble?  By having both Microsoft and open source invade their market.  Their easy growth is in the past, and now the question becomes whether they can thrive in a highly competitive environment.

1. Power consumes more than the cost of the PC. 2.  Virtualization of PC's can reduce the IT budget.

According to the media and several prominent individuals, SaaS is the future of the software business.  The “old-fashioned” licensed software model is doomed.  Yet the most profitable and biggest software companies have only a limited presence in SaaS.  Does this mean they are out of...

Motorola’s new camera phone won’t be enough to resuscitate their ailing handset business, but it does show that some innovation still lives within Motorola.  This is not the second coming of the RAZR, but is a good beginning if they can follow with other innovative products.

1.  Choosing one vendor that can give you data storage 2.  Completes the picture for servers and storage as well as desktops and laptops

The move from rotating disks to Solid State Disks (SSD) is happening faster than most predicted.  Rotating disk vendors such as Seagate will likely see margins erode as they lose the high-end disk business to SSD.

Some things will be cloud based, MSFT, GOOG and AMZN are all betting on it.  for middle market companies having computing in the cloud may make sense. But it comes with risk

1.  Commodity computing is here and managing servers is not core to the business. 2.  Focus IT on solving business problems.

Oracle is getting close to delivering on their promises about Fusion.  If the final suite of products can match the early previews, they have achieved a “game-changer” in enterprise applications.

1. Paper and Pen are a natural for people when it comes to ideas and creativity 2. Simplicity is important when it comes to design