Practical Technology

On July 1st, Bill Gates will retire. He’ll still spend about 20% of his time on Microsoft projects. If Microsoft is to retain 20% of its economic clout in five years time, the company’s board should start working on firing CEO Steve Ballmer now.
Why? Because Ballmer has been in charge of Microsoft for the last [...]

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Does any major technology company have a worse record when it comes to buying other companies than HP? I mean come on. Do you recall how well the Compaq buy out went? Come to think of it, where is fired CEO, the genius behind that deal, Carly Fiorina working now anyway?
Sure Compaq may have worked [...]

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Chances are you haven’t heard of PlateSpin. Trust me, for Novell, which purchased the enterprise data center workload lifecycle management company, this is a major step forward in moving into the data center.
PlateSpin’s software enables system administrators to move workloads between physical and virtual environments regardless of platform or operating system. It lets companies [...]

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It’s been an open secret that controversial SCO CEO Darl McBride was being forced out. Now, in an interview with the Salt Lake City Tribune, McBride admits that his days at SCO are numbered.
In the interview, McBride said, “Clearly when we draw up a battle plan for what we’ve been working for the last several [...]

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Citrix buying XenSource is the best thing that could happen to the company behind the popular open-source virtualization program Xen, and it’s the worst thing that could happen to VMware.
It seems like only yesterday that I was saying VMwares IPO made no sense to me. Oh, wait, it was just yesterday.
One of the big reasons [...]

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