Rob Enderle
Rob Enderle
Rob Enderleis an American technology analyst...
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Intellectual property litigation has been increasing steadily for the last several years. As a result, indemnification against this litigation not only has become a requirement for any technology purchase, it strongly pushes companies toward the buy side of the build-versus-buy decision. Microsoft's indemnification stands as one of the most comprehensive in the market, setting a high bar for competing platforms.
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Because the litigation has become so much of what they are, the lawsuits tend to eclipse anything else they try to do. And if it goes bad for them with IBM, I doubt anything they do with software will be able to save them.
announcing apple intel level space terms using
In terms of the level of importance, this would be ù in this space ù the same thing as Apple announcing they were going to be using Intel processors,
box buy five machine viable
If you wanted to buy a machine that would still be a viable box in five years, this has that argument.
apple degree grow hardware market mean question sell share whether windows
The big unanswered question in the market is whether Apple hardware could successfully sell with Windows on it, and by successful, I mean be competitive to a degree that it could grow Apple's hardware share massively.
bit certain company loses quite reaches
It's been languishing quite a bit and is reminiscent of the old IBM. As a company reaches a certain size, it loses its edge.
appliances business close market wants
The business market wants low-maintenance devices. Appliances can get close to this profile,
audrey bad best child poster turned
Audrey was one of the best implementations of what turned out to be a really bad idea, ... It could be the poster child for this.
budgets cutting managers seen soft tempting tough
Cutting R&D budgets can be tempting for managers during tough times. It's seen as a soft cost, like marketing.
built few laptop next technology
It's the next big thing. In the next few years you won't see a laptop without this kind of technology built in.
broken company far focus forget launch merger open people product products running shows
It's the product launch you look at to see if they got the merger right. This shows they're back up and running and open for business, which is important because in a merger, people forget the company has products and focus on the merger only. So far they haven't broken anything.
great lucrative machines money people regular replace spend
It's a lucrative market, and a great audience. These are people who spend money and replace their machines on a regular basis.
hoped looks point year
It looks like a comprehensive package, but they've been working at this for some time, ... Most of us hoped they would be at this point a year ago.
certainly few pc until versions
It's going to take a few versions until this can be a world-killing product, but over time, if it's done right, it could certainly be as big as the PC ever was.