All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Software

• With IBM including a starter edition of Business Objects software with IBM DB2 and DB2 Warehouse, Business Objects will gain new prospects. • The strengthened alliance between IBM and Business Objects demonstrates that despite SAP's pending acquisition of Business Objects, third parties...

Microsoft, like Google via Doubleclick, is busy "reinventing and rethinking the whole business model of online advertising..." (Steve Ballmer) Yes, MSFT, is chasing GOOG as it races toward opening up new, performance-based media and ad cost models but MSFT too is looking to re-define ad models in a...

Today Symantec (SYMC) is looking like a true leader in the security business.  Their acquisition of Vontu, and public statement of direction indicates a company that sees the needs of the market beyond the point products they are selling today.  The challenge for Symantec, and competitors...

Symantec has recently made a key aquisition in Vontu which helps it transform from technology focus to a data focus for security.

In the past, Microsoft successfully consolidated its position on Operation System, Internet Browser, and Desktop & Laptop Applications. It is OK for Microsoft to survive, but what's the next growth point?  

Now that “everyone” is outsourcing to India, the next big thing is outsourcing to China. The first rule is China is not the same as India. Chinese outsourcing can be necessary for survival, or it can be a money-pit for the unwary.

If Apple does indeed allow for their MacOS to run inside a Virtual Machine then people will no longer have to buy Apple computers to run MacOS.  This could open the way for Apple's MacOS to be used inside corporations who normally do not want to spend too much money on "computers that look pretty"....

The actual number of Linux servers is increasing. What is decreasing is the rate of increase.  The survey done is measuring new hardware sales, thus this measurement might be misguided.

Microsoft’s Windows Server is growing rapidly. At the same time, Linux (particularly Red Hat) is displacing Sun Microsystems’s Solaris, IBM’s AIX and HP’s HP-UX. Windows is not displacing Linux.

There appear to be numerous problems with the new Macintosh OS Leopard, did Apple hurt this product due to the iPhone software development process. Is Apple still hurting themselves with a slim engineering department? Also see: Apple's Leopard prompts blue screen of death Apple's Leopard rejects latest...