All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Software

SOA can be very useful if done correctly. SOA will be subjective. Vendor by Vendor SOA must be tied to policy.

If you are in the enterprise software business and your competition has a major product that not only has 95% of the market but is so standard that many think no work can be done without it, what would you do?  If you are IBM and the competitive product is Microsoft Office (which is second only...

SOA is not a revolutionary market.  The key SOA concepts have been around for more than 20 years and tools that implements these concepts have been in the marketplace for more than 10 years.  This is an evolutionary market that will benefit system integration companies and not the product...

The pro-Microsoft lobby see the ruling as an attack on Microsoft because it is large and successful. This isn't right: the ruling is an attack on a specific Microsoft strategy of "blurring the distinction between operating system and application", a strategy which aims to leverage Microsoft's Windows dominance...

All global companies must have a truly global outlook and antennae attuned to the priorities, sensitivities, and political and socio-economic climates of all major market places if they are to minimize the risk of seriously adverse actions against them in any of these markets. The verdict delivered...

The biggest impact of the ruling will be to force Microsoft to significantly raise its legal expenses and settlements budget for the years to come. It is unlikely however that it will seriously affect its current position and future growth prospects in the office automation and operating system...

Microsoft’s bid to extend its dominance in digital documents to the new field of open-format documents was unexpectedly rebuffed today when a global technical panel refused to designate its Office Open XML as an international standard. The underlying code of an open document format is public, allowing...

Microsoft should not be surprisedMicrosoft got what they were asking for - you played hardball with the European standards community and discovered they are a front for their national governments.  You should not be surprised they lashed back.Microsoft needs to play nice and tough

Intuitively, perhaps naively, I regard intellectual property/capital as sacrosanct of the creator of the property. Here is a case where the owner of such intellectual capital/property has no rights and, in my view, this is wrong.

As has been exhibited in this case ruling....justice (in EU) has attempted to serve the common cause of ordinary people. Something like this might never happen in the US as government is deemed as another for profit enterprise which is acting in the best interest i.e, in the interest of the ever...