GLG News by Security Software Sellers (North America)

Sun Solaris 10 containers and LDOMS offer similar capabilities in the UNIX space. No other UNIX provider owns the chip the way Sun does SPARC. Virtualization may be a crowded space soon.

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...

Sun has a viable alternative to IBM, Oracle, BEA, and JBoss. Sun's position in the market is unclear. SOA may slow sales of product for everyone.

Any mobile device, in general, is a headache to corporate information security organizations. The security issues reported on iPhones are not  different from that on other smart phones or even (mobile) laptops getting connected to a corporate network.

Tom Taulli expressed concers with the Engineering side of IHS in his March 2007 Motley Fool column.  Today we will look back and see if anything has changed and should he feel better.

A combined Thomson Scientific and IHS would become the clear leader in the Science and Technology market and have the strongest customr position in the market.  If the could make this work you would have a $1.2B player with strong profits.

Point one is that Ebay is in financial trouble. The second point is that some of it could have been avoided. The third is - the problem can be partially resolved, but it will take time, money, and will loose Ebay some of its "charm."

While IHS is at all time highs a lot of questions still remain unanswered: -What will happen to IHS if the Energy unit slows down? -Who is going to follow Jerre Stead as CEO? -Can IHS take advantage of "synergies" at Janes to turn a slow growth low margin publisher into a strong asset? Only time will...

- An awakening call for security software vendors who ignored or misunderstood Software-as-a-Service in their marketplace - A boost for SMB market which has been looking for integrated IT services to come from a  centralized delivery model - Managed service providers will be forced to rethink what...

Virtualization is beginning to move beyond consolidation. Virtualization introduces security and data management issues. Virtualization has no real standards at this time.