“IBM has set benchmark after benchmark, and Sun has had trouble keeping up. They needed to find a way to keep their existing customers. The way to do that is either increase your bells and whistles or cut costs. Sun opted to add the bells and whistles.”
“If you are a competitor, you have to ask yourself what you need to do to try to get ahead, given Apple's formidable lead. Microsoft probably decided they would rather do as little as possible to encourage Mac users.”
“These are all of the tools that someone would need to basically enable a purely Web-based computer experience, rather than focusing on the [operating system].”
“It will be interesting to see how what they announce compares to the CDP for Files software that IBM announced a couple of weeks ago. They'll all be in the same space, starting out at the lower-end server space and moving up.”
“It will be interesting to see how what they announce compares to the CDP for Files software that IBM announced last month. They'll all be in the same space, starting out at the desktop, lower-end server space and moving up.”
