Archive for April, 2007
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
A Couple Fun Reads
IBM is up big today because of a share buyback and dividend increase. “I can’t figure out how to grow the business and spend all this money. Just tell the accountants get rid of it” grumbled Sam Palmisano in his sleep. It’s been a fun week to follow IBM. There are some great […]
3 Comments » - Posted in General by Greg
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Why does IBM embrace Open-Source
Much has been made by myself as well as others, about IBM’s open arm embrace of open source software. A great article at preens.com notes the oddity in the following way: IBM, the epitome of conservative business, de-emphasizes its billion-dollar “AIX” operating system in favor of a product developed by a loose coalition of […]
No Comments » - Posted in General, Strategy, Open Source by Greg
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
IBM Masters Commercials
Did anyone happen to tape the masters? A lot of people have emailed asking for links or details about the IBM commercials during the masters. I didn’t see them and don’t know what agency made them or anything. If anyone has the video, or could send me a link or a file […]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Greg
Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Steve Jobs Calls Me Out
Steve Jobs’ fake blog did a post Tuesday about IBM and their software growth hype:
You gotta hand it to IBM. No matter how crappy their business is they can always find a chunk of fool’s gold in the pile of dogshit and then get someone in the media (or everyone in the media) to […]