GLG News by Network Management Software Evaluators and Purchasers

1. IT professionals will be measured on business value 2. Tangibile and visible results will matter

NetSuite is in a market where gaining and keeping customers is expensive, and likely to become more so as the competition intensifies.  While NetSuite has shown good growth, and the market is big enough them to grow further, profitable growth will be a considerable challenge.

Simulations are a proven way of providing better training at lower costs.  Today’s simulations, to be effective, are prohibitively expensive for the average enterprise to adopt.  Microsoft’s ESP could potentially provide a platform for a wide array of simulation training at a price anyone...

Open source is great when it’s bringing in revenue.  It’s “socialism” or “cancer” when it’s taking revenue away.   Those software CEO’s who today are lauding open source as such as great advance will be singing a very different tune if/when their products start hurting!

Microsoft has long been considered the most credible threat to VMWare’s continued reign in the virtualization space. Microsoft has been very late to this game and has a challenge of overcoming VMWare’s lead, while VMWare should rightly fear Microsoft’s size and power. With the beta release of their...

Video, in one form or another, seems to be the primary driver of the next wave of Internet growth. Facebook, MySpace and others are driving this in the consumer space, and high-quality video conferencing seems poised to do the same to the enterprise space.

1. It is difficult for law to keep up with quick changing business and technology. 2. People take advantage of the lag is consumer protection.

1.  Web 2.0 companies will drive innovation ideas inside IT 2.  Web 2.0 companies are still growing and experimenting 3.  The transformation of business because of the web is just beginning

1.  I actually find the gains on the iphone are worth the current challneges 2.  Is this a serious challenge to Blackberry and Window Mobile?

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?