RCP
Editor in Chief Scott Bekker
digs
deep
into Microsoft's most recent earnings statement and uncovers some things
that the rest of us hadn't yet discovered.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 31, 20080 comments
Despite what you might have heard, nobody in France actually says "Sacre
bleu!" as an expression of surprise. Maybe people did at one time, but
they don't anymore. These days, "oh la la!" (yes, just like in the
old
Sassoon commercials
) is the expression of choice. So, if you're going to
react with shock to the fact that the French national police force has
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 31, 20081 comments
That's right -- a
mobile
thin client
.
Well, sort of mobile. It's not for the road warrior with millions of frequent
flyer miles, Tad Bodeman, director of blade PC and thin client solutions for
the HP Personal Systems Group, told RCPU. It's more for folks jumping from meeting
to meeting.
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 30, 20080 comments
Dig the lead of
this
story
:
"Cisco Systems Inc. introduced on Monday a new data-center switch
that the company says can copy all the searchable data on the Internet in
less than eight minutes, or run 5 million concurrent high-quality videoconferences
between New York and San Francisco."
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 30, 20080 comments
There are, to be sure, at least a couple of good reasons why virtualization
pioneer VMware
lost
about a third of the value
of its stock price on Tuesday following its Monday
afternoon fourth quarter earnings report.
First of all, VMware's quarterly revenue number and its projections of revenue
growth for 2008 both missed analysts' estimates. And, even though everything
else for Q4 and 2007 actually looked
pretty good, those two numbers coming up short was enough to scare off investors.
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 30, 20080 comments
It's looking more like
late-2008
than mid-2008
for SQL Server 2008, which might have a branding crisis if
it actually manages to slip to 2009 (which, of course, we're not saying that
it will).
Posted by Lee Pender on January 29, 20080 comments
RCPU's incontrovertible rule of the technology industry passed another test
last week. The rule, of course, is that no matter what happens -- with the economy,
with the industry or within the hallowed walls of Redmond itself -- Microsoft
makes
more money
.
And so it came to pass last week, as you probably know by now, that MSFT (cool
financial writers love to refer to companies by their ticker symbols) tore through
Wall Street expectations again and reported
another blockbuster quarter for the period ended Dec. 31, 2007. Plus, the
company said that fiscal 2008 will also beat the Street's expectations. Microsoft
makes more money. And, hey, for partners, that's a good thing.
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Posted by Lee Pender on January 29, 20080 comments
Sometimes, we like to make
these
arguments
ourselves...and sometimes we let the former chief economist for
the FCC make them for us. The crux of the argument: Evil Microsoft didn't turn
out to be that evil after all.
Posted by Lee Pender on January 29, 20080 comments