T-Mobile USA said Monday that it’s finally launching its long-awaited 3G wireless network.
New York will be the first city to use the new network, which will initially use a technology called UMTS, or Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, but will eventually use an even faster technology standard called HSDPA, …
There is no right to privacy at international borders. For those of us with laptops, this presents a pretty major problem: How do we get through US Customs with our beloved portable devices, without having Uncle Sam peeking at every email we’ve sent, every mp3 we’ve listened to, …
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano announced a series of retirements and appointments among his executive staff. It continues IBM’s tradition of promoting from within.
Nicholas M. Donofrio
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Nick Donofrio, executive vice president of Innovation and Technology and a 44-year veteran of Big Blue, is retiring on October 1, …
The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, admittedly knows little about tech–but deal-making, yes.
And in commenting in a CNBC interview, Buffet, the investment guru of Berkshire Hathaway, had this general observation about deal-making, in light of Microsoft’s walk-away from its unsolicited Yahoo bid:
“When you hit your choking point, …
Update at 6:45 a.m. PDT Monday, May 5: This post was rewritten to reflect Yahoo’s share price at market open at 6 a.m. PDT.
Yahoo kicked off at $23.02 per share as the markets opened Monday–down 19.7 percent from Friday’s close.
The Internet …
Savio Rodrigues of InfoWorld tries to parse what makes open-source buyers tick, and how to generate more of them. In so doing, he suggests that the real battleground is over those enterprises with both money and expertise to go it alone with open-source software (so-called “Category B” customers).
Why should they bother buying support when they can self-support?
For me, this isn’t the right question. Using his MySQL-derived customer classification system, the real question is, “Can proprietary software serve Category A (companies with more time than money) at all?” and “Can open source more efficiently serve Categories B and C too?”
Implicit in Rodrigues’ reasoning is, I think, a belief that if the software is proprietary, A, B, and C companies will all eventually just say, “Aw, shucks. I’ve got time/expertise/money, but what does it matter, I just have to pay anyway!” So the vendor cleans up on all three.
In fact, my own experience suggests that B companies buy less and less proprietary software (E*Trade is an example). Ditto goes for B, and C companies are willing to pay, anyway, so where is the conflict with open-source business models?
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Sun’s business model does not work and it hasn’t worked for a long time. Moreover, open source, MySQL, StorageTek, and SaaS (Software as a Service) will not fix it. Here’s why, but first, a little background.
My interest in Sun began in 1999 when I had dinner with Mel Friedman, then president of Sun’s microelectronics group. He was looking for a marketing VP and I was looking for a job.
At the time, Sun had essentially one customer for its UltraSparc chips, and that was Sun. I assumed the company wanted to take its chips into the merchant market, thus the interest in me. That, as it turns out, was an erroneous assumption.
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Technology may have made it simple to obtain digital music, but it hasn’t provided an easy way to sift through millions of tracks to find the tunes we like.
The Internet has, however, connected music fans to a legion of hardcore aficionados who help steer people to new music.
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Sun Microsystems on Monday said it has released OpenSolaris, an open source version of its Solaris operating system, and announced a deal with Amazon.com.
The OpenSolaris project has been under development for more than three years. Sun hopes to popularize the operating system with developers, students and other traditional …
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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang
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Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Yahoo is behind the company for now, but Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang took pains Sunday to indicate the company has not entered a complacent phase.
“No one is celebrating about the outcome of these past …