All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Software

1) This article is great because it exposes many of Vista's short comings for large enterprises. 2) If readers take heed to this article, they could potentially save there organizations vast amounts of money and time by waiting for the next release of windows 3)I liked this article because I am experiencing...

Sun has tied its future to open source, but seems clueless on how to monetize open source.  Worse yet, they don’t seem to care!  Meanwhile their core revenue stream continues to dwindle.  Future prospects don’t look good.

Desktop virtualization has always been an enticing proposition, but it was never able to overcome the practical limitations, and more importantly never gained acceptance from the user base.  However, the proliferation and acceptance of browser based applications, proliferation of...

Desktop virtualization promises huge savings in TCO, improved security, good user experience, improved manageability, etc.  Despite these advantages, it has many issues that have so far prevented widespread adoption, and likely will always limit adoption. 

Oracle’s applications have both wide and deep functionality, but that’s not enough anymore.  As younger users move into positions of influence intuitive interfaces and social networking features become increasingly important.  The applications vendor that “gets” this will be in a commanding...

o While Teradata has been slow to acknowledge that data warehouse appliances were more than a niche market, Teradata may actually have been the original data warehouse appliance vendor. o Data warehouse appliances do not necessarily replace traditional data warehouses; rather they complement them and...

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Apple cannot win the enterprise market for the Mac, but Microsoft can give it to them.  When the resurgence of the Mac is combined with Microsoft’s continuing insistence on selling Vista to enterprises, the door is open to Apple gaining a solid presence in the enterprise market.

Limelight is doing the right thing by trying to include more advanced software features in its CDN offering, but the question is how many content owners are making DRM a key part of their short and long-term strategies? Focusing on streaming (via Flash Media Server and WMS) and dying technologies such...

Siemens PLM is introducing new technology that may fundamentally change the way people define new products on the computer.  This space (product lifecycle management (PLM)) has been stagnant for some time with very little to differentiate the significant players in both the high and medium...