All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Software

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...

Vista SP1 is for people and organizations that are non-believers in Microsoft Security promises. Vista have good good technology and security before SP! and SP1 makes it even better. Microsoft is better than Open-Source anytime.

The integration of Google Apps into Salesforce.com’s products can only help both companies, so it is certainly not going to help Microsoft.  On the other hand, this level of integration has been available for quite a while between Microsoft’s Outlook and ERP solutions, so it’s not likely to have...

The best course for Microsoft is to release the next OS ahead of schedule and write Vista off as an interim step.  If Microsoft can get a solid Windows 7 released in the middle of 2009 they will retain their hold on the desktop market.  If not, they risk losing a large percentage of...

Microsoft has made surprising progress in the last 2-3 years to get into Gartner’s leaders magic quadrant.  The recent massive consolidation in the BI market gives Microsoft a window of opportunity to win market share at the expense of the well-known vendors. 

I believe it is no coincidence that Starbucks is moving from T-Mobile to AT&T WiFi.  This is being driven by customer needs. The nest step would be for T-Mobile to create its own location based social network.  That would also make sense here.

Looks like Starbucks is trying to get back to basics after failing at mass customization. It's been a long and winding road for them, not unexpected when their leader had visions of 40,000 Starbucks.

Starbucks' stock is down nearly 50% in the past year, it's no longer seen as an innovator, and it's taking the wrong road in embracing idea management and online community technologies (it refers to this  incorrectly "social networking" to make it sound up-to-date) to right the ship.